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| Position: | Guard | ||||
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| Born: | (1990-05-25)May 25, 1990 (age 34) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. | ||||
| Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||
| Weight: | 308 lb (140 kg) | ||||
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| High school: | Evangelical Christian (Memphis, Tennessee) | ||||
| College: | Alabama (2008–2012) | ||||
| NFL draft: | 2013: 4th round, 113th pick | ||||
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Barrett A. Jones (born May 25, 1990) is an American formerfootballguard who played in theNational Football League (NFL). He playedcollege football as acenter for theAlabama Crimson Tide, where he won theRimington Trophy as the best center in college football. He was selected by theSt. Louis Rams in the fourth round of the2013 NFL draft.[1]
Jones was born inMemphis, Tennessee. He attendedEvangelical Christian School in Memphis, where he played for the Evangelical Christian Eagleshigh school football team. Following his senior season in 2007, he was a first-team all-state selection byThe Tennessean and the Tennessee Sports Writers Association, and was a U.S. Army high school All-American.
Considered a four-star recruit byRivals.com,[2] Jones was listed as the No. 1 center in the nation in 2008.[3]
His father Rex attended the University of Alabama and played for theAlabama Crimson Tide men's basketball team from 1982 to 1984.Barrett has two brothers, Harrison and Walker, that also played football for the University of Alabama. Barrett's grandfather,Bill Jones, is a college basketball head coaching legend in the state of Alabama.[4]
Jones received an athletic scholarship to attend theUniversity of Alabama, where he played for coachNick Saban'sAlabama Crimson Tide football team from2008 to2012. Afterredshirting his initial year at Alabama, Jones started all 14 games forAlabama's 2009 national championship team at right guard. He subsequently earned Freshman All-America honors fromCollege Football News and Phil Steele.[5]
In his junior season, because of team needs, he switched from guard to left tackle where he started all 13 games for anotherAlabama national championship team. Following his 2011 junior season, he was a first-teamAll-Southeastern Conference (SEC) selection, and was recognized as a unanimous first-team All-American. He was the winner of the 2011 Outland Trophy given to the best lineman in college football. In his senior year, again because of team needs, he switched from tackle to center. He started every game at center for the team that won another National Championship in 2012. He did not receive a second Outland Trophy but won the Rimington Trophy given each year to the outstanding college center becoming only the 2nd person in history to win both an Outland and a Rimington. He is the only person to win an Outland and a Rimington at two different positions or in two different years. Barrett Jones ended his Alabama career winning 3 BCS National Championships—each Championship at a different position—as an All-American guard, an All-American right tackle and an All-American center.
Off the field, he has earned a degree in accounting, graduatingsumma cum laude in August 2011 with a 4.0 grade point average. He graduated in December 2012 with his masters again maintaining a 4.0 GPA. In addition, he was honored as one of 11 members of the 2011 Allstate AFCA Good Work "which honors football student-athletes for exemplary community service." Jones won the 2012William V. Campbell Trophy, an award given by the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame to college's football's "best and brightest." He is a 2010 and 2011 Academic All-American and in his final school year of 2012–13, he earned distinction as both theNCAA Division IFootball Academic All-America Team Member of the Year[6] and theAcademic All-America Team Member of the Year for all NCAA Division I sports.[7] He received the 2011 ARA Sportsmanship Award and 2011 Wuerffel Trophy for combined athletic, academic and community service achievement. On December 6, 2012, Jones was awarded theRimington Trophy as the best center in college football.[8] Finally, he was named one of the 2014 recipients of theToday's Top 10 Award, given annually by the NCAA to 10 outstanding student-athletes who graduated in the school year before the award presentation.[9]
Jones suffered a serious foot injury in the first quarter of the SEC Championship game but played the entire game so well that his teammates did not even know he had been injured. Even with the injury, in the BCS Championship game four weeks later, Jones earned praise for handlingNotre Dame nose tackleLouis Nix III mostly by himself, giving left guardChance Warmack the freedom to maneuver downfield to block Fighting Irish linebackers forEddie Lacy andT. J. Yeldon.[10] After the game, he announced that he had aLisfranc injury of the left foot with at least 2 torn ligaments.[11] He was scheduled for surgery immediately upon returning home to Alabama. As a result, he was unable to participate in theNFL Combine.
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | |||||||||
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| 6 ft4+1⁄2 in (1.94 m) | 306 lb (139 kg) | 34+1⁄8 in (0.87 m) | 10+1⁄4 in (0.26 m) | |||||||||
| All values fromNFL Combine[12][13] | ||||||||||||
In the2013 NFL draft, Jones was selected by theSt. Louis Rams in the fourth round with the 113th overall draft pick.[14] He participated in ten games from 2013 to 2014. On September 5, 2015, he was waived by the team.[15]
On September 8, 2015, Jones was signed to thePittsburgh Steelers' practice squad. On September 29, 2015, he was released from practice squad.
On October 6, 2015, Jones was signed by theChicago Bears' practice squad, following a season-ending injury toWill Montgomery.
On November 30, 2015, Jones was signed by thePhiladelphia Eagles from the Bears' practice squad. On September 3, 2016, he was released by the Eagles.[16]
In 2017 Jones was hired byESPN Radio as acolor analyst for college football and occasional NFL broadcasts.[17]
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