Datone Jones with the Green Bay Packers, 2013
With the Green Bay Packers, 2013. Photo: User:Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Defensive end, UCLA, 2008–⁠12

Datone Jones

Number
No. 56
Height
6′4″
Hometown
Compton, CA
Born
Jul 24, 1990

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Datone Jones played defensive end at UCLA (2008–⁠12). The Green Bay Packers took Jones in the first round, No. 26 overall in the 2013 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
2012
First-team All-Pac-12
Drafted
No. 26
Overall, 2013 NFL Draft (Green Bay Packers)

Honors

Receiving

SeasonTeamRecYdsAvgTDLong
2012UCLA177.017

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls.

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTklTFLSacksPBUFFHur
2008N101051500–––
200912121830114321
2011122318416.53200
201214451762196.5022
On file905814836.513.5–––

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). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2009UCLA56DE
2010UCLA56DE
2011UCLA56DE
2012UCLA56DE6′4″

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

2012 UCLA 1 game, 1 catch, 7 yards, 1 TD
DateOpponentResultRecYdsTDLong
Sep 15vs.HoustonW 37–⁠61717

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

Played in the 2013 Senior Bowl (North team, lost 16–⁠21).

DrillCombine 2013
Height6′3⅞″
Weight283 lb
Arm length32¾″
Hand size10″
40-yard dash4.80 s
10-yard split1.66 sW
Vertical jump31½″
Broad jump9′4″
Bench press29 reps
3-cone drill7.32 s
20-yard shuttle4.32 s

Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Rosters and honors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

7 seasons, 58 games with a stat; latest team: Las Vegas Raiders.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2013Green Bay Packers11103.50
2014Green Bay Packers10191.51
2015Green Bay Packers142030
2016Green Bay Packers141910
2017Dallas Cowboys71210
2018Dallas Cowboys1–00
2020Las Vegas Raiders1200
NFL career5882101

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.

Other pro football

YearsLeagueTeam
2021CFLMontreal Alouettes *

Leagues other than the NFL, from the infobox of his Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), as it names the teams. * Off-season roster or practice squad only.

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