Linebacker, Baylor (from West Virginia, Kansas State), 2015–24
Matt Jones
Lettered 2020–24 (school media guide)
- Number
- No. 2
- Height
- 6′4″
- Weight
- 246 lb
- Class (2024)
- Senior
- Hometown
- Hubbard, OH
Matt Jones played linebacker at West Virginia (2015–16), Kansas State (2016), West Virginia (2017), Kansas State (2017), West Virginia (2018), Kansas State (2018) and Baylor (2019–24).
Career highs
14tackles, career highat Oklahoma State, 20212sacks, career highvs. Texas, 2023Honors
Team titles: Big 12 champions, 2021
Defense
Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. A dash: the source has no number for that season (often an FCS season), and career totals count only the numbers on file.
On the roster
| Season | Team | No. | Pos | Class | Ht | Wt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | West Virginia | 2 | LB | Yr 1 | ||
| 2016 | West Virginia | 2 | LB | Yr 2 | ||
| 2016 | Kansas State | 2 | LB | Yr 2 | ||
| 2017 | West Virginia | 2 | LB | Yr 3 | ||
| 2017 | Kansas State | 2 | LB | Yr 3 | ||
| 2018 | West Virginia | 2 | LB | Yr 4 | ||
| 2018 | Kansas State | 2 | LB | Yr 4 | ||
| 2019 | Baylor | 2 | LB | Yr 5 | ||
| 2020 | Baylor | 2 | LB | Yr 6 | ||
| 2021 | Baylor | 2 | LB | Yr 7 | ||
| 2022 | Baylor | 2 | LB | Yr 8 | ||
| 2023 | Baylor | 2 | LB | Yr 9 | ||
| 2024 | Baylor | 2 | LB | Sr. (Yr 10) | 6′4″ | 246 |
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
2024 Baylor 13 games, 101 tackles, 4 sacks
| Date | Opponent | Result | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | Int | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31 | vs. Tarleton State | W 45–3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 7 | at Utah | L 12–23 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 14 | vs. Air Force | W 31–3 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 21 | at Colorado | L 31–38 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 28 | vs. BYU | L 28–34 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 5 | at Iowa State | L 21–43 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 19 | at Texas Tech | W 59–35 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Oct 26 | vs. Oklahoma State | W 38–28 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2 | vs. TCU | W 37–34 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 16 | at West Virginia | W 49–35 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 23 | at Houston | W 20–10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 30 | vs. Kansas | W 45–17 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 31 ✦ | vs. LSU | L 31–44 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2023 Baylor 12 games, 84 tackles, 4 sacks
| Date | Opponent | Result | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | Int | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2 | vs. Texas State | L 31–42 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 9 | vs.Utah | L 13–20 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Sep 16 | vs. Long Island University | W 30–7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 23 | vs. Texas | L 6–38 | 8 | 7 | 3.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 30 | at UCF | W 36–35 | 8 | 5 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 7 | vs.Texas Tech | L 14–39 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 21 | at Cincinnati | W 32–29 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Oct 28 | vs.Iowa State | L 18–30 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 4 | vs.Houston | L 24–25 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 11 | at Kansas State | L 25–59 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 18 | atTCU | L 17–42 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 25 | vs.West Virginia | L 31–34 | 8 | 6 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2022 Baylor 11 games, 54 tackles, 2.5 sacks
| Date | Opponent | Result | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | Int | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3 | vs. UAlbany | W 69–10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 10 | atBYU | L 20–26 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 17 | vs.Texas State | W 42–7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 24 | atIowa State | W 31–24 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 1 | vs.Oklahoma State | L 25–36 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 13 | atWest Virginia | L 40–43 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Oct 22 | vs.Kansas | W 35–23 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 29 | atTexas Tech | W 45–17 | 4 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 5 | at Oklahoma | W 38–35 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 12 | vs.Kansas State | L 3–31 | 9 | 7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 19 | vs.TCU | L 28–29 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2021 Baylor 13 games, 52 tackles, 2 sacks, 1 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | Int | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4 | atTexas State | W 29–20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 11 | vs. Texas Southern | W 66–7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 18 | atKansas | W 45–7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 25 | vs.Iowa State | W 31–29 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2 | atOklahoma State | L 14–24 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 9 | vs.West Virginia | W 45–20 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 16 | vs.BYU | W 38–24 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 30 | vs.Texas | W 31–24 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 13 | vs.Oklahoma | W 27–14 | 2 | 1 | 1.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 20 | atKansas State | W 20–10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 27 | vs.Texas Tech | W 27–24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 4 | vs.Oklahoma State | W 21–16 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Jan 1 ✦ | vs. Ole Miss | W 21–7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
2020 Baylor 7 games, 11 tackles
| Date | Opponent | Result | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | Int | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26 | vs.Kansas | W 47–14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 3 | atWest Virginia | L 21–27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 31 | vs.TCU | L 23–33 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 7 | atIowa State | L 31–38 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 14 | atTexas Tech | L 23–24 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 28 | vs.Kansas State | W 32–31 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 5 | atOklahoma | L 14–27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2019 Baylor 2 games, 4 tackles, 0.5 sacks
| Date | Opponent | Result | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | Int | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31 | vs. Stephen F. Austin | W 56–17 | 3 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 30 | atKansas | W 61–6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.
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