Zach Jones

Arizona

Nov 1 (Sat)

TBA

Position:
Offensive Lineman
Height:
6-3
Weight:
250
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Aurora, Colo.
High School:
Grandview

2005 (Fr.)?Redshirted; he opened the year practicing as a defensive end, but was moved over to offense early in the season to help bolster the depth on the line where he was utilized at center. He was one of five linemen to earn the Scout Team Offense Award for the week leading up to the Oklahoma State game. He enrolled at CU for January classes and was thus able to participate in spring drills.

HIGH SCHOOL?As a senior, he earned SuperPrep All-Midlands honors (ranked No. 59 overall in the region), while Rivals.com ranked him as the No. 50 strong-side defensive end in the nation as well as the No. 10 player on its postseason Colorado Top 15 list. A second-team all-state selection by the Rocky Mountain News his senior year (honorable mention by the Denver Post), he also earned first-team Aurora Sentinel all-city and all-Centennial League accolades. A three-year letterman in football, he missed most of his junior season with a torn MCL (only played in five games), but was a second-team all-city performer his sophomore year. As a senior, he racked up 152 total tackles (82 solo), including a state-best 21 stops for losses. He also had 12 quarterback sacks, five forced fumbles with three recoveries, six passes broken up and an interception. On the other side of the ball seeing limited time at tight end, he reeled in 12 catches for 50 yards. He had no significant stats in 2003 due to his knee injury, but did have 20 receptions for 100 yards during his sophomore campaign. One of his top games came against Cherry Creek in Grandview’s first year of 5A competition when he was a sophomore: in a 24-14 win, he had three receptions for 20 yards and had seven tackles and one sack. It was none other than current CU offensive tackle Tyler Polumbus that Jones beat off the edge to earn that sack, but Jones admits that Polumbus “got him pretty good a few times” in that game. Grandview was 5-5 his senior year, 8-3 when he was a junior and 7-4 during his sophomore season as he had two head coaches in his prep career, Rocky Whitworth and John Shultz. He lettered once in track & field, as he placed ninth at the state meet in the shot put with a personal best of 53-0. He also played baseball and basketball.

ACADEMICS?He is majoring in business administration at Colorado. Following college he may want to pursue a career in business, sports performance and coaching.

PERSONAL?Born March 30, 1987 in Aurora, Colo. Hobbies include water sports, playing basketball, working out and photography, and he’s also worked as an umpire during little league summer baseball. An uncle, Terry Jones, signed with the Buffaloes in the mid-1980’s and was on the team for about a year. He was one of the early commitments in CU’s 2005 class, doing so in August, just prior to the start of his senior year.