After his graduation from Cathedral Latin School in Cleveland, Ohio, Jones spent his college years at Michigan State University.
He finished sixth in voting for the 1966 Heisman Award, the Michigan State Spartans second year in a row as national champions.
The pick used to draft Jones was one received by the Vikings from the New York Giants in exchange for the quarterback Fran Tarkenton.
Clint Jones is a member of The Pigskin Club Of Washington, D.C., and National Intercollegiate All-American Football Players Honor Roll.
[3] His professional career highs were: He was one of the fifteen plaintiffs in Mackey v. National Football League in which Judge Earl R. Larson declared that the Rozelle rule was a violation of antitrust laws on December 30, 1975.