Welcome back to the District @JungleBoi_Swagg 🫡
Let’s get to work ‼️#DefendDC | #XFL2023
— D.C. Defenders (@XFLDefenders) April 5, 2023
This is cool: the XFL’s D.C. Defenders announced Wednesday that they have signed former New Orleans Saints safety D.J. Swearinger to reinforce their secondary. Swearinger played college football at South Carolina and spent stops in the NFL at Houston, Arizona, Tampa Bay, Washington, and Oakland before coming to New Orleans in 2019. He appeared in 13 games for the Saints, including the playoffs, providing quality depth behind Marcus Williams, Malcolm Jenkins, and C.J. Gardner-Johnson.
Now he gets a chance to continue his career. The Defenders have three games left on their regular season schedule (against the Seattle Sea Dragons, Arlington Renegades, and San Antonio Brahmas) and their 6-1 record, best in the upstart spring league, means they’ll be looking to make some noise in the playoffs. We’ll see how much Swearinger has left in the tank on a defense run by (who else?) controversial former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams.
