[2][3] Jones was selected by the Browns in the eleventh round of the 1991 NFL draft, but never played in a regular season game for the team.
[4] Jones started playing college football in 1986 at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, but only saw action in the first three games before going down for the rest of the season with a knee injury.
[4] On April 22, 1991, the Cleveland Browns selected Jones in the eleventh round of the 1991 NFL draft after having been described by the team's personnel department as "exceptionally strong, quick, and aggressive.
Due to a left knee injury,[8] he was put on the physically unable to perform list on July 17, 1992, where he remained for the entire 1992 season as the team went on to win Super Bowl XXVII.
[7] After four years of playing as a journeyman in the NFL, Jones signed with the Memphis Mad Dogs of the Canadian Football League.
This was at the tail end of a failed experiment by the CFL to expand the league into the United States, and the Mad Dogs only existed for one season in 1995.