stillers4me
07-27-2014, 11:42 AM
His Twitter handle is SacManJones_29.
That Jarvis Jones had just one quarterback sack in his rookie season with the Steelers, perhaps that name was fitting.
After all, he wasn’t Sac(s)ManJones_29.
Jones hopes to make those sacks a plurality in 2014.
“That’s my name, man. It’s copyrighted,” Jones said Saturday at the Steelers training camp at Saint Vincent College. “I’ve got to live up to the name.”
It was something Jones did at the University of Georgia, where he was an All-America linebacker and the Sotheastern Conference Defensive Player of the Year in 2012, leading major college football with 14 1/2 sacks.
The Steelers made him the 17th pick in the 2013 draft and the first linebacker selected.
Despite being given a starting job for the Steelers at right outside linebacker coming out of training camp, the explosiveness he displayed in college didn’t translate to the NFL. Jones struggled with assignments and was eventually benched in favor of Jason Worilds, though he did wind up starting eight games because of injuries to LaMarr Woodley, who has since been released. That leaves Jones and Worilds as the Steelers’ unquestioned outside linebacker tandem.........
Read more @ http://www.observer-reporter.com/article/20140726/SPORTS0403/140729621#.U9UroJV0ycx
That Jarvis Jones had just one quarterback sack in his rookie season with the Steelers, perhaps that name was fitting.
After all, he wasn’t Sac(s)ManJones_29.
Jones hopes to make those sacks a plurality in 2014.
“That’s my name, man. It’s copyrighted,” Jones said Saturday at the Steelers training camp at Saint Vincent College. “I’ve got to live up to the name.”
It was something Jones did at the University of Georgia, where he was an All-America linebacker and the Sotheastern Conference Defensive Player of the Year in 2012, leading major college football with 14 1/2 sacks.
The Steelers made him the 17th pick in the 2013 draft and the first linebacker selected.
Despite being given a starting job for the Steelers at right outside linebacker coming out of training camp, the explosiveness he displayed in college didn’t translate to the NFL. Jones struggled with assignments and was eventually benched in favor of Jason Worilds, though he did wind up starting eight games because of injuries to LaMarr Woodley, who has since been released. That leaves Jones and Worilds as the Steelers’ unquestioned outside linebacker tandem.........
Read more @ http://www.observer-reporter.com/article/20140726/SPORTS0403/140729621#.U9UroJV0ycx