DE Chris Jones Updates (Miss. State Commitment)
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Yeah it's like when you play NCAA football and a kid blows up late in the process and his leader is like SMU, one in home visit and a phone call and you're his new number one.
I honestly think Alabama is at that point unless you have a strong personal connection to the school or just don't want to play the position that Alabama is recruiting you at.
The list of schools trying to get involved now with the new and improved Jones is endless, though Alabama, Florida and Ole Miss stick out for him. The new schools are all aggressive in their pitches to convince Jones to reconsider his commitment to MSU.
One Alabama assistant told Jones he was engaged, not married to the Bulldogs.
Jones has tried to stay as even-keeled as possible, and just takes it all in. He has consulted with his family and his mom encouraged him to take a visit to Alabama.
He says he’ll consider visiting Alabama, but is adamant in his commitment to MSU.
Interesting about his commitment and why it is so strong. He said a year and holf ago when he tranferred to his current HS his HC tried to get schools to come look at him. Only Southern Miss and MSU showed up. SMiss told him he did not possess the ability to play in Conference USA. MSU wanted him and got him. One of the reason he flew under the radar was he mainly was a BBall player and did not really focus on being a football player until a year ago. Also seemed to have transferred HS maybe more than once. 247 new ranking will have him ranked 5th in the country.
One Alabama assistant told Jones he was engaged, not married to the Bulldogs.
Jones has tried to stay as even-keeled as possible, and just takes it all in. He has consulted with his family and his mom encouraged him to take a visit to Alabama.
He says he’ll consider visiting Alabama, but is adamant in his commitment to MSU.
Interesting about his commitment and why it is so strong. He said a year and holf ago when he tranferred to his current HS his HC tried to get schools to come look at him. Only Southern Miss and MSU showed up. SMiss told him he did not possess the ability to play in Conference USA. MSU wanted him and got him. One of the reason he flew under the radar was he mainly was a BBall player and did not really focus on being a football player until a year ago. Also seemed to have transferred HS maybe more than once. 247 new ranking will have him ranked 5th in the country.
I think we are a long shot with Jones but don't think this has any impact. Williams should be a LB, Jones a DE.
Jones is still a longshot, but to be sure I don't think there is any real correlation between Williams and Jones.
I tend to think Jones is a take regardless (though still unlikely to sign with UA), but he won't end up at Jack linebacker. He's already 6'6, 250 pounds, and yet to spend more than five minutes with Scott Cochran. He might get a quick look at Jack as a true freshman, but he would work his way to DE pretty quickly, and more likely he would begin his career there from the outset.
Jason taylor was along the same lines as well. It all depends on what kind of freak you are. IMO he has a higher ceiling than big Rob who is #1 in the rankings.
No real physical comparison between those two. Taylor showed up to Akron at around 6'1 and 180 pounds ... he mainly played free safety in high school. Jones is already 6'5 and 250-ish, which is heavier than Taylor played at in the NFL (though perhaps a hair shorter).
Anything can happen, of course, but for now I don't see any reason to expect that Jones would stick at Jack if he signed with Alabama, and FWIW we haven't really been recruiting him as such. With that frame, he's probably got a slightly better shot at playing the end-tackle combo position.
so missed my entire point. Also, one of my favorite player in the NFL is Mario Williams who is 6'7" 300lbs and played a Jack Lb role for Houston when they switched. Donta and Upshaw both played @ 265 or heavier. Just saying. Some players don't gain 50 pounds when they get on campus even at UA just saying
Florida coaches were to visit Jones this week, and he called them and told them not to bother because he wasn't interested.
More power to this kid and as much as I would love to have him at Bama, a part of me hopes he sticks with his commitment with the team that saw what he brought to the table when others were passing on him.
He is still thinking about visiting Us, *U, and Ole Miss...but says every time that it will not have any outcome on his commitment... This kid is going to be good, and seems to have a great head on his shoulders..
I think that his HS coaches are going to do everything they can to block any school other than MSU. He will takes his OV this weekend to MSU and my guess is that will be it.
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