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Featured defensive role
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Player Dossier
2018-2020South Carolina
Ernest Jones
LB • 6'2" • 230 lbs • Waycross, GA, USA
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Ernest Jones shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 43.3 disruption score.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker
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Reliability
75
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
93
Blue-chip, NFL-level ceiling
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · South Carolina
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- South Carolina
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Vanderbilt
Player Story
Ernest Jones built his college career from 2018 through 2020 as a linebacker from Waycross, GA wearing No. 53, spending time with South Carolina. The clearest part of Ernest Jones' career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- South Carolina
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2018
NFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2021
- Selection
- Round 3 · Pick 40
- Overall
- No. 103
- NFL Team
- Los Angeles Rams
Ernest Jones, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · South Carolina. Ernest Jones shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 43.3 disruption score.
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- Latest team and position
- South Carolina · LB
- Career Tackles
- 199
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 26 games
- Best season
- 2019 Regular Season · South Carolina
- Top game
- Vanderbilt
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Ware County · South Carolina
- High school pipeline
- Ware County · 15 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- NFL Draft
- 2021 · Round 3 · Pick 40 · Los Angeles Rams
- Latest roster
- No. 53 · Junior
- 2020 Tackles rank
- 86 tackles · LB 29th (top 3%) · SEC 9th (top 2%) · National 32nd (top 1%)
Ernest Jones played LB for South Carolina. Across 3 tracked seasons, Ernest Jones recorded 199 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with South Carolina.
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