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Position: | Linebacker | ||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||
Date of birth: | January 22, 1968 | ||||||||||
Place of birth: | Iowa City, Iowa | ||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||
Weight: | 250 lb (113 kg) | ||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||
High school: | Lubbock (TX) Dunbar | ||||||||||
College: | Texas | ||||||||||
NFL Draft: | 1991 / Round: 8 / Pick: 213 | ||||||||||
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Player stats at PFR |
Tackles: | 53 |
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Sacks: | 1.0 |
Forced fumbles: | 1 |
Fumble recoveries: | 2 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Brian Keith Jones (born January 22, 1968 in Iowa) is an American sports radio and television host and former American football linebacker. Jones played one year of college football at UCLA and then transferred to University of Texas at Austin (Texas); Jones was drafted in the eighth round of the 1991 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Raiders. Jones played NFL professional football for 6 seasons.
Born in Iowa City, Iowa, Jones grew up in Lubbock, Texas and graduated from Dunbar High School of Lubbock in 1986. Jones first attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and played on the UCLA Bruins football team for Terry Donahue before transferring to the University of Texas at Austin in 1988. He then played the 1989 and 1990 seasons for the Texas Longhorns football team. As a senior in Texas's 1990 Southwest Conference (SWC) title run, Jones was an All-SWC selection.
Jones spent the 1991 NFL season playing linebacker with the Indianapolis Colts. He then spent the 1992 season with the Miami Dolphins and 1994 with the Los Angeles Raiders. He signed with the New Orleans Saints in 1995, for which he would spend the next four seasons; Jones did not see any significant playing time after the 1996 season. Jones sat out the 1997 season because of injury and played only one game in 1998 before being cut. In 1999, Jones filed a workers' compensation claim over his 1997 injury, but the Saints and Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation filed a Peremptory Exception of Prescription that was upheld by the Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal in 2001.