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The Raiders are cutting ties with Chandler Jones.
The team has released the embattled defensive end who was arrested on Thursday night in Las Vegas, according to the league’s waiver wire.
ESPN’s Adam Schefter first broke the news.
Jones was booked into Clark County Detention Center on two charges of violating a domestic violence protective order and is next expected to be in court on Dec. 4.
Jones, who had posted a bizarre string of videos on social media targeting various people in the Raiders organization, was inactive for the first three weeks of the season and has been away from the Raiders since their final training camp practice on Aug. 31.
He was placed on the non-football injury/illness list on Sept. 20.
“The Raiders are hopeful that Chandler Jones receives the care that he needs,” the team said in a statement Friday. “He, his family, and all those involved are in our thoughts. As this is now a legal matter, we will not be providing further comment.”
On Thursday, the 33-year-old took to social media, crying in a livestream and baselessly implicating Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels in the death of Jones’ ex-New England teammate Aaron Hernandez.
Hernandez took his own life in prison on April 19, 2017.
During the Thursday livestream, he also claimed players were being injected with fluoride and that CTE, a brain disease associated with traumatic hits to the head, did not exist.
Those accusations came after the Raiders defensive end, the youngest brother of UFC fighter Jon Jones, had previously claimed he was taken to a Las Vegas mental hospital and “injected” with an unknown substance last week.
“I was taken in by the Las Vegas fire department last week against my will,” Jones shared in three handwritten notes posted on X, formerly Twitter, with the caption, “First day out but I’m still aligned.”
His first posts began on Labor Day weekend when he, in a series of posts on his Instagram story, claimed McDaniels and general manager Dave Ziegler were keeping him away from the Raiders’ facility.
He also said the team had been in contact with one of his babies’ mothers, with whom he does not have a present relationship with.
“F–k it, I don’t want to play for the Raiders if that’s my [head coach] or [general manager],” he said then.
Jones was in the second season of a three-year, $51 million deal.
According to ESPN, the Raiders will have about $12 million in dead money against the salary cap for this season and next.
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