Matt Jones

Great read on Matt Jones, the freak from Arkansas.

QB, 6'6", 240 pounds, 4.4 in the 40, 40 inch vertical.

http://proxy.espn.go.com/nfl/draft05/columns/story?columnist=mortensen_chris&id=2025109

I watched Arkansas twice this year and at least once last year. Jones is an amazing athlete and a mediocre QB. He does not have a great arm and he is not all that accurate.

Now as a WR, that athleticism and that size could be very attractive.

i heard from espn that he should go late first round or early second. I never would like to take him w/our pic but if we can trade down and pic up two pics like 1 late first and 1 second i wouldn't mind him. They say he will move to WR because he isn't that good at qb but i saw a tape with him doing mike vick stuff but breaking tackles to a like 60 yard touchdown, then slam it into the goal post with a huge leep

man i want to get this guy

man i want to get this guy

This is how Mort ended that article;



"Matt Jones won't be among the top 10 players selected in the April 23-24 draft, but I will venture to say that he'll play in more Pro Bowls than almost any of those guys."

HOLY CRAP! If you can't get pumped about that, you need to have your pulse checked!

I mean, what do you do? I think Mort is a pretty solid guy and he is loving Jones.

I wonder if he is even in the skins radar?!

Great read on Matt Jones, the freak from Arkansas.

QB, 6'6", 240 pounds, 4.4 in the 40, 40 inch vertical.

http://proxy.espn.go.com/nfl/draft05/columns/story?columnist=mortensen_chris&id=2025109

I'd love the Skins to draft him he's a freak of nature. The guy has speed, can catch, tuff guy. plays hard all the time.

Looks like a Joe gibbs type player to me.

www.cnnsi.com/.../ 2001/11/04/top_performers/ (http://www.cnnsi.com/.../ 2001/11/04/top_performers/)


article from 2001 about Matt Jones. I love the last sentence by coach Nutt (he he he)

From the Arkansas Gazette

"He’s got the versatility to play a lot of positions in our league, with quarterback probably being one of them also," said Washington Redskins offensive assistant Jack Burns, a former Arkansas graduate assistant. "He’s got a great upside and can do a lot of things to help a football team."


I wonder what the skins are thinking with this guy?

Would it be nuts to take him at 9? I know all along I've been saying mike williams, but when you look at both of them together, side by side. Jones is taller, 25 pounds heavier, faster, jumps higher, and has better hands by all accounts!

I watched Arkansas twice this year and at least once last year. Jones is an amazing athlete and a mediocre QB. He does not have a great arm and he is not all that accurate.

Now as a WR, that athleticism and that size could be very attractive.

Maybe it's just me, but I see him as a tightend. Kinda like Jay Novacek but he maybe faster.

Would it be nuts to take him at 9? I know all along I've been saying mike williams, but when you look at both of them together, side by side. Jones is taller, 25 pounds heavier, faster, jumps higher, and has better hands by all accounts!

Ninth overall is probably high, since we'd convert him to a position he's never played before. At 9 overall I think you want to be pretty darn sure of what you're getting. This guy has lots of promise, but in the end you really don't know what kind of WR he's going to be.

I think the Skins would have to do some maneuvering to get him. They'd have to trade down to grab picks later in the 1st round and grab a 2nd rounder.