"I’ve been doing it for the last three years," Jones said, via the Palm Beach Post. "If you look at all the top safeties and you look at their numbers and you look at mine, you tell me -- what’s the difference?"
Last season, Jones recorded 80 tackles, three interceptions, seven pass deflections and one forced fumble in just 12 games. Those are solid numbers for any safety over the course of a 16 game season -- never mind a 12 game slate.
"I can come up in the box and be like a linebacker, or I can go in the back end and make plays on the ball," he said. "I think that’s a plus. Everyone doesn’t have that tool -- to be versatile, to come down and defend the run and make plays on the ball, be a ballhawking safety."
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