re: Have we talked about Mike Jones being listed as the starting Jack LB...

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Yeah I posted about it in a depth chart thread the other day. He was always better as an edge player IMO. I hope he balls out, seems like a good dude.

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Missed that, sorry.

Jones intrigues me a little. He came here because he was hoping to turn himself into a middle linebacker and boost his NFL stock and it's safe to say that's been a disaster.

And he already walked on Senior Day, which would indicate he plans to move on after this year. But we're sitting on Swinson, 205-pound Zavier Carter and DaShawn Womack at Jack for next year, and Jones is almost certainly looking at lesser options than LSU if he either tries to go pro or enters the portal.

So if he does ball out, what then? Does he maybe change his mind and come back, and if so, do you now have a bit more depth at Jack than you thought? Instead of figuring that you're going to have a true freshman starting there next year, are you going to have a senior instead?

It's sort of an interesting dynamic to the Citrus Bowl. And given that everybody has talked about what a good guy Jones is, maybe he ends up being a great story for 2023 like Eric Alexander and Carnell Stewart and some of the other seniors we've had who finished strong after not doing much earlier in their careers.