Jets Add Depth at Safety By Signing Bell The Jets continued their off-season overhaul at safety Friday, signing the veteran Yeremiah Bell to a one-year deal worth $1.4 million. Bell, who spent the previous eight seasons with the Miami Dolphins, provides the Jets with a durable, in-the-box safety who is regarded more for his run defense than his pass coverage. The 34-year-old Bell, released by the Dolphins for salary-cap reasons, started 63 of Miami's last 64 regular-season games and led the team in tackles in each of the last four years. In 2011, Bell had 107 tackles, 2 sacks and an interception. With Eric Smith and LaRon Landry, signed as a free agent in March, projected to start for the Jets, it is unlikely that Bell approaches those statistics again this season. But he supplies valuable depth at a position that lacked consistency in 2011 and that lost its primary backup, Brodney Pool, to a free-agent deal in Dallas. Bell, whose signing has not been announced by the team but was confirmed by a football executive with knowledge of his decision, can also help ease the transition for the Jets" two draft picks at safety, Josh Bush from Wake Forest and Antonio Allen from South Carolina. Bell's arrival decreases - but does not eliminate - the possibility that Jim Leonhard, recuperating from a torn patella tendon, re-signs with the team. Leonhard could be an option if the Jets grow concerned with the timetable of Landry's recovery from an Achilles" tendon injury.