Byron Jones

Number: No. 16
Height: 6′1″
Hometown: New Britain, CT
Born: Sep 26, 1992, in New Britain, Connecticut

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Byron Jones played cornerback at UConn (2010–⁠14). The Dallas Cowboys took Jones in the first round, No. 27 overall in the 2015 NFL Draft.

Team titles: Big East champions, 2010

Defense

Season	Team	Int
2011	UConn	2
2012	UConn	1
2013	UConn	3
2014	UConn	2
Career		8

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. Before 2016 our source records only interceptions for most defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so these lines count interceptions only. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.

Defense before 2016

Season	G	Solo	Ast	Tkl	TFL	Int	PBU
2011	12	33	18	51	0	2	4
2012	12	39	48	87	1.5	1	2
2013^N	12	42	18	60	2	3	8
2014^E	6 of 12	5	1	6	–	–	–

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources, marked by season: unmarked, cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in); N, NCAA statistics, via octonion/football, the season’s official lines (G: games played); E, ESPN play-by-play participants, via SportsDataverse: tackles only, counted in the games whose play-by-play names tacklers (G: those games, of his team’s), so part of the season, not its total. A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Ht
2010	UConn	16	CB
2011	UConn	16	CB
2012	UConn	16	CB
2013	UConn	16	CB
2014	UConn	16	CB	6′1″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2014 UConn 2 games with an interception on file, 2 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Int
Sep 19	atSouth Florida	L 14–⁠17	1
Oct 23	atEast Carolina	L 21–⁠31	1

2013 UConn 3 games with an interception on file, 3 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Int
Sep 21	vs.Michigan	L 21–⁠24	1
Oct 12	vs.South Florida	L 10–⁠13	1
Oct 26	atUCF	L 17–⁠62	1

2012 UConn 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Int
Oct 13	vs.Temple	L 14–⁠17	1

2011 UConn 2 games with an interception on file, 2 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Int
Sep 3	vs.Fordham	W 35–⁠3	1
Sep 16	vs.Iowa State	L 20–⁠24	1

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file. Before 2016 our source’s box scores record only interceptions for defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so only those games are listed. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.

Before the draft

Drill	Combine 2015	Combine or pro day 2015
Height	6′0⅝″
Weight	199 lb
Arm length	32″
Hand size	10″
Wingspan		76½″^W
40-yard dash		4.49 s
10-yard split		1.50 s^W
Vertical jump	44½″
Broad jump	12′3″
Bench press		18 reps
3-cone drill	6.78 s
20-yard shuttle	3.94 s

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

7 seasons, 107 games with a stat; latest team: Miami Dolphins.

Pro Bowl: 2018 · Second-team All-Pro (AP): 2018

All-Pro teams: AP second team 2018.

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Int
2015	Dallas Cowboys	16	60	0
2016	Dallas Cowboys	15	81	1
2017	Dallas Cowboys	16	77	1
2018	Dallas Cowboys	16	65	0
2019	Dallas Cowboys	15	42	0
2020	Miami Dolphins	14	36	2
2021	Miami Dolphins	15	51	0
NFL career		107	412	4

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat. Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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