Linebacker Kwon Alexander is joining the Pittsburgh Steelers’ training camp at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in preparation for his ninth NFL season.

On Sunday, the Steelers announced they had signed the former Oxford High School star to a one-year contract. The monetary terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Alexander had been an unrestricted free agent since March.

In 2022, Alexander played in 17 games, with 12 starts, for the New York Jets. Alexander had 69 tackles, one-half sack, six tackles for loss, one pass breakup and one forced fumble for New York.

Two other free-agent signings entered training camp as the frontrunners to man the inside-linebacker positions for Pittsburgh, with Elandon Roberts coming from the Miami Dolphins and Cole Holcomb from the Washington Commanders.

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A fourth-round draft pick from LSU in 2015, Alexander was a starter from his first NFL game for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Alexander led the league in solo tackles in 2016 and earned Pro Bowl recognition in 2017.

In 2018, Alexander had played in six games when a torn anterior cruciate ligament ended his season. That didn’t dissuade San Francisco from signing him as a free agent to a four-year, $54 million contract in March 2019.

Alexander suffered a torn pectoral muscle in the 49ers’ eighth game of the 2019 season. But he made it back to the field for the postseason and helped San Francisco reach Super Bowl LIV.

The 49ers sent Alexander to New Orleans for a fifth-round pick in the 2021 NFL Draft and linebacker Kiko Alonso on Nov. 2, 2020. He started seven straight games for the Saints before he sustained a torn Achilles tendon in the next-to-last game of the 2020 regular season, an injury that also caused him to miss the first four games of the 2021 campaign.

Alexander also signed a one-year contract in free agency in July last year when he joined the Jets.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.