Jones played college football at the University of Washington in Seattle under head coach Don James.
He was part of the 1984 team that beat Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl and finished the season at 11–1, earning a national title.
[3]: 169 A team captain in his senior season of 1986,[4] he left with the all-time receiving record for a UW tight end, with 81 receptions.
[5] Selected by the New York Giants in the eighth round of the 1987 NFL draft,[6] Jones played two seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs and one with the Seattle Seahawks in 1989.
[1][7] Following a recent diagnosis of early-onset dementia at age 54, Jones shot himself in the head in his Seattle home and died several hours later at Harborview Medical Center.