Landry Jones

Landry Jones

Jones with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2016
No. 3 Pittsburgh Steelers
Position:	Quarterback
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1989-04-04) April 4, 1989 (age 27)
Place of birth:	Artesia, New Mexico
Height:	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight:	223 lb (101 kg)
Career information
High school:	Artesia (NM)
College:	Oklahoma
NFL Draft:	2013 / Round: 4 / Pick: 115
Career history
Pittsburgh Steelers (2013–present)
Roster status:	Active
Career highlights and awards
Sammy Baugh Trophy (2010)
Career NFL statistics as of 2016
Pass completions: 85 Pass attempts: 141 Passing yards: 1,071 TD–INT: 7–6 Passer rating: 82.8 Player stats at NFL.com
Player stats at PFR

Landry Jones (born April 4, 1989) is an American football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Oklahoma, and was drafted by the Steelers in the fourth round of the 2013 NFL Draft.

Jones was born in Artesia, New Mexico. He attended Artesia High School in his hometown, where he led the football team to two consecutive Class 4A state championships, throwing for a combined 7,013 yards and 89 touchdowns. As a senior in 2007, Jones threw for 3,433 yards and 45 touchdowns. Artesia won its second consecutive Class 4A championship, against Goddard High, in which Jones threw for 325 yards and seven touchdowns, a school record. Jones was later named New Mexico's Class 4A Player of the Year and was a finalist for the Joe Montana Quarterback of the Year Award.

Jones was a highly regarded recruit and was among the highest rated quarterbacks for the 2008 class by several ratings publishers including a four-star rating by both Scout.com (sixth rated quarterback) and Rivals.com (sixth rated pro-style quarterback). He was recruited by many schools including Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, Virginia and Wisconsin. He later committed to Oklahoma.

While attending the University of Oklahoma, Jones played for the Oklahoma Sooners football team from 2008 to 2012. In 2008, third-string quarterback Keith Nichol transferred to Michigan State, leaving senior Joey Halzle and Jones, who was redshirted his freshman year, as backups to Sam Bradford. In 2009, in the season opener against Brigham Young, Jones took over as the starting quarterback for the Sooners after Bradford suffered an injury to his shoulder; the Sooners went on to lose the game. However, in the next game, his first as the starter, Jones completed 18 of 32 passes for 286 yards, with three touchdowns and an interception in the Sooners 64–0 win against Idaho State. In his second start, Jones threw a Sooner-record six touchdown passes with two interceptions in a 45–0 win against Tulsa. Later that week, Jones was named AT&T All- America Player of the Week.