No. 53 – Tennessee Titans | |||||||||||
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Position: | Linebacker | ||||||||||
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Born: | Waycross, Georgia, U.S. | November 22, 1999||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||
Weight: | 230 lb (104 kg) | ||||||||||
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High school: | Ware County (GA) | ||||||||||
College: | South Carolina (2018–2020) | ||||||||||
NFL draft: | 2021 / Round: 3 / Pick: 103 | ||||||||||
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Roster status: | Active | ||||||||||
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Player stats at PFR |
Ernest Jones (born November 22, 1999) is an American professional football linebacker for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at South Carolina.
Jones grew up in Waycross, Georgia and attended Ware County High School. [1] As a senior, he recorded 112 tackles with six tackles for loss, two sacks and three forced fumbles and was named first-team Class AAAAA. [2] Jones committed to play at South Carolina after considering offers from Georgia Tech and Duke. [3]
Jones played in five games as a freshman with 16 tackles and a forced fumble. [4] He became a starter and led South Carolina with 97 tackles in his sophomore season. [5] Going into his junior season, Jones missed most of South Carolina's preseason training due to an appendectomy. [2] He led the team again as a junior with 86 tackles, five of which were for a loss. [6] At the end of the season, Jones declared that he would forgo his senior season and enter the NFL draft. [7]
Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | 20-yard split | 20-yard shuttle | Three-cone drill | Vertical jump | Broad jump | Bench press | |
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6 ft 1+1⁄2 in (1.87 m) | 230 lb (104 kg) | 33+3⁄8 in (0.85 m) | 10+3⁄8 in (0.26 m) | 4.71 s | 1.63 s | 2.72 s | 4.38 s | 7.49 s | 38.5 in (0.98 m) | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) | 19 reps | |
All values from Pro Day [8] [9] [10] |
Jones was selected in the third round with the 103rd overall pick of the 2021 NFL draft by the Los Angeles Rams. [11] Jones signed his four-year rookie contract with the Rams on July 22, 2021. [12]
Jones entered his rookie season in 2021 as a backup inside linebacker behind Kenny Young and Troy Reeder. He was inserted into the starting lineup after the Rams traded Young prior to Week 8. In Week 14, Jones intercepted a pass from Kyler Murray in a 30–23 win over the Arizona Cardinals. He suffered a high ankle sprain in Week 16 and was placed on injured reserve on December 28, finishing the regular season with 61 tackles and one sack, with four passes defensed and two interceptions through 15 games and seven starts. Jones was activated on January 29, 2022, for the National Football Conference Championship game, contributing two tackles as he backed up Reeder in L.A.'s 20–17 victory over the San Francisco 49ers. In Super Bowl LVI, Jones got the start at inside linebacker and recorded seven tackles with one sack and a pass defensed in the Rams' 23–20 victory against the Cincinnati Bengals. [13]
During the team's voluntary minicamp in May 2022, the team announced that Jones was changing his jersey number from '50' to '53.' [14]
Jones became a full-time starter in 2023, starting 15 games while leading the team with 145 tackles.
Prior to the 2024 season, Jones was traded to the Tennessee Titans with a 2026 sixth-round pick for a 2026 fifth-round pick. [15]
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