Jones is credited as the first professional player to use weight training to improve his conditioning for football.

Jones attended the University of Maryland, where he played college football as a tackle.

[3] After 1965, Bears coach George Halas agreed, as a favor to Jones, to trade him to the Washington Redskins so that he could play a final season near his home in Rockville, Maryland.

[3] After playing football, Jones became an assistant coach for the Denver Broncos, Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns, and the New England Patriots.

[1] He later went back to work, this time as a defensive line coach for the Scottish Claymores of NFL Europe.

[4] During the mid-1950s Jones also worked in the off-season teaching physical education in the Montgomery County elementary schools.