Former Tennessee Volunteers captain Jaxson Moi is back with the Los Angeles Rams.

The Rams announced they had signed Moi, a defensive tackle, to their practice squad Friday, giving the Rocky Top product another chance to stick in the NFL after he was waived at the end of training camp.

The move came as the Rams elevated safety Tanner Ingle to the 53-man roster ahead of Monday Night Football against the New York Giants.

Moi, a 6-foot-2, 305-pound interior lineman from Oceanside, California, fills the practice-squad spot Ingle vacated.

It is a familiar landing spot: Moi signed with Los Angeles as an undrafted free agent after the 2026 NFL Draft and logged 96 preseason snaps, the most of any Rams defensive lineman, before being cut when the roster was trimmed to 53.

For Vols fans, the news is less about the transaction itself than about the player. Moi transferred to Knoxville from Stanford before the 2024 season and quickly became more than a rotational piece.

He earned a spot on the team’s leadership council and, as a senior, served as a team captain. He started nine games in 2025 despite an injury-plagued year that began with an early exit against Syracuse and later cost him the Music City Bowl.

In two seasons at Tennessee, he appeared in 22 games, recording 27 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, three sacks, two pass breakups and a forced fumble. Across his full college career at Stanford and Tennessee he played 46 games.

Moi has spoken openly about how much the program meant to him. He even explored a fifth year of eligibility so he could return to Neyland Stadium, calling Tennessee his “second home” and saying he would be a Vol for life.

That chapter closed when he signed with the Rams, joining a locker room that already includes former Volunteers Byron Young and Jaylen McCollough.

Practice-squad life is no guarantee of Sunday snaps. It does, however, keep Moi in a scheme he already knows and in the same building as two recent Tennessee alumni who have carved out NFL roles.

For a captain who led by example on Rocky Top even when injuries limited his production, that is another week of work and another chance to prove he belongs.

Vols supporters will keep an eye on the practice reports. A former captain in orange and white is still wearing pads, still in the mix, and still one injury or roster shuffle away from the active list.

That is the Tennessee angle on a Friday transaction in Los Angeles.