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Data Scout Notes: 2023: NAC...2022: 12-9-22 Transfer from Arizona State/NAC...(+) Coming off Oct 2022 Concussion...2021: Transfer from Florida...NAC...2020: NAC
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Quarterback Emory Jones was announced on Coach Satterfield's first signing day. During Arizona State's difficult 3-9 season he was in eight games and threw for seven touchdowns. He had games of 261 yards vs. Utah, 243 vs. USC and 227 vs. Stanford. He was 7-for-9 for 59 yards when the Sun Devils upset then-top-25 Washington State.The 6-foot-2, 211-pound signal caller was with Florida for four years and started in 2021 throwing for 2,734 yards and 19 touchdowns while running for 758 yards. "Emory i s the guy who's played in the SEC," Satterfield said on signing day. "He's won big games in the SEC. I do think he's got a tremendous upside. He's got a lot of talent. He's got a really good arm and he can run as well. So it kind of fits what we want wit h that. I also believe it's important to be able to land a quarterback of his caliber at this stage to be able to help us in the wide receiver room." - Cincinnati Enquirer
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024  QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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Arizona State quarterback Emory Jones is expected to enter the transfer portal, according to Arizona Sports' John Gambadoro. Jones arrived in Tempe last offseason after four years playing for the Florida Gators. After Jones started the first six games of the season, he was injured in the middle of the second quarter against Washington and didn't return. Backup Trenton Bourguet filled in and led the Sun Devils to an upset win over the then-ranked No. 21 Huskies.Jones then started the following gam e against Stanford, a loss, before Arizona State went with Bourguet versus Colorado the next week. He was the starter from there. The only action Jones would see the rest of the way was when Bourguet was pulled against Washington State and Jones finished the game. On the year in eight appearances, Jones threw for 1,533 yards, seven touchdowns and four interceptions, completing 62.8% of his passes. - Arizona Sports
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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Arizona State fired football coach Herm Edwards in his fifth season following an ugly home loss to Eastern Michigan and a lingering NCAA investigation into illegal recruiting practices. Arizona State athletic director Ray Anderson announced the decision on Sunday, a day after the Sun Devils lost 30-21 to Eastern Michigan of the Mid-American Conference as heavy favorites. Edwards went 46-26 at Arizona State, including 1-2 this season and 17-14 in the Pac-12. The Sun Devils never won more than eight games in a season under Edwards.Running backs coach Shaun Aguano will serve as interim coach. "We have made the decision to make a change in the leadership of our football program, effective immediately," Anderson said in a statement. "By mutual agreem ent, coach Edwards and I have determined that he will relinquish duties as our head coach. At the core of this is doing what is best for our current team, staff and university. I understand the frustrations out there. We must do better and that starts wi th our decision today." The Sun Devils begin Pac-12 play next with three ranked teams: No. 13 Utah at home Saturday, followed by No. 7 Southern California and No. 18 Washington. Edwards managed to hold onto his job after an up-and-down 2021, but another shaky loss led to his firing three games into the season. Arizona State is still awaiting word on possible NCAA sanctions for allegedly hosting recruits on campus during an NCAA-mandated COVID-19 dead period in 2020. - AP College Football
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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When the Arizona State Sun Devils football team takes the field for the first time of the 2022 regular season against Northern Arizona on Sept. 1, they will be doing so with a new man under center. After three seasons with Jayden Daniels running the offe nse, it's time for the Emory Jones show to take control of the Sun Devils' offense. ASU head coach Herm Edwards named Jones the team's 'QB1' on Thursday, after a training camp battle with fellow quarterbacks Paul Tyson and Trenton Bourguet. "It's a lot d ifferent, a different landscape for me," Jones told Arizona Sports' Burns & Gambo about his new home. "It's been a smooth transition for me, though." Jones, the LaGrange, Georgia native who spent the first four years of his collegiate career at Florida, traded the southern humidity for the Valley heat.The quarterback, however, said he went on a trip to Arizona during spring break this year before making the decision to transfer. After participating in spring ball at Florida under new head coach B illy Napier, Jones entered the transfer portal. He said he was in contact with Oklahoma, Notre Dame and UCF before ultimately making the decision to head to ASU. "It really wasn't hard, I only took one official visit and it was here," Jones said. "Coach Herm, throughout the recruitment, he talked to me and my mom almost every day." Comparing it to his recruitment as a high schooler, Jones said he knew exactly what he was looking for, which was ultimately support. "I knew that he would take care of me on and off the field and put me in the best position to be successful," Jones said. - Arizonasports.com
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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The quarterback debate at Arizona State is over and it ended the way most thought it would. Florida transfer Emory Jones has been named the starter for the Sun Devils' Sept. 1 regular season opener against Northern Arizona at Sun Devil Stadium. The annou ncement was made by head coach Herm Edwards after Thursday's practice. Edwards said he met with the players and gave them official word Wednesday night. "It's always tough at that position because only one guy can play," Edwards said. "They were disappoi nted but we had good competition. They all got better." Edwards says Jones' versatility was a key. "He's the guy that has proven he can move the team in a bunch of ways. He can make some unannounced plays. The play that is not scripted. The competition w as good for him to earn the trust of his teammates and the coaching staff and all the other guys improved too.The departure of three-year starter Jayden Daniels to the transfer portal created a void at that position. The Sun Devils had five athlet es competing for that spot in the spring but no one separated himself from the rest of the pack. Jones, a 6-foot-2, 210-pounder, was added to the mix in May, six weeks after he hit the transfer portal after three years in a Gator uniform. "I know one thi ng: When he throws the ball, he doesn't throw a lot of curveballs," Edwards said, earlier this month when discussing Jones. "It's fast. So you better be ready cause it's going to get on you. It gets on you fast. You don't have your head around, your hand s ready, it can bounce off you. So you gotta get your head around. And that's the timing of receivers and quarterback." Jones completed 64.7% (224-for-346) of his passes in 2021 for 2,734 yards and 19 touchdowns but had 13 interceptions. - Arizona Republ ic
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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Arizona State football coach Herm Edwards has preached the importance of competition from the day he walked on to the Tempe campus for the first time. So it wasn't enough to have five quarterbacks fighting for the starting nod. He went out and got a sixt h in University of Florida transfer Emory Jones. When practices for the coming season begin Wednesday the competition will be on. The battle for the spot vacated by three-year starter Jayden Daniels, who transferred to LSU, will be one of the main storyl ines for the Sun Devils. The competition suits Jones (6-2, 211) just fine. "That's what we all signed up for," said Jones, who has two years of eligibility remaining. "That's what I enjoy, so I'm ready to get going and start competing. It's all competiti on. We all show up, work, every day. At Florida everybody wants to be the best, here it's not any different. My competitive level has just increased, just knowing I have to prove myself again." In his Gator career, Jones completed 64.6% of his passes for 3,347 yards, 26 touchdowns and 14 interceptions, adding 1,273 yards and 10 rushing touchdowns.While the Sun Devils have a half dozen athletes competing for the starting spot, Jones is the lone individual with significant collegiate experience und er his belt which likely gives him a leg up on the others. However, he is the only one of the six that was not on campus for spring drills. "He has a luxury of experience. He's been around a couple offenses. Some of that background has helped those older guys learn the system a little faster," offensive coordinator and quarterback coach Glenn Thomas said, earlier this week. "But we're going to push him in there and get him as many reps as we possibly can. With that number of quarterbacks it's obviously a unique situation. We'll give all of those guys ample opportunities to really show what they can do." - Arizona Republic
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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It all starts and ends with your quarterback and the Sun Devils were in the market for a new signal-caller after three-year starter Jayden Daniels jumped ship, eventually landing at LSU. The Sun Devils had five players vying for the job in the spring, le d by Trent Bourguet, Daniels' understudy last season, and Alabama transfer Paul Tyson. But no one clearly won that nod over the course of the 15 spring practices, thus another was added to the mix when Jones committed in May. He threw for more than 2,700 yards and 19 touchdowns with 13 interceptions for the Florida Gators last season. He also rushed for 759 yards and four touchdowns on 143 carries so he adds an athletic component that ASU had with Daniels.Edwards will say there is a battle for th e starting nod but it is hard to see Jones not being the starter come opening day. After starting in the SEC, Jones wouldn't have transferred here if there wasn't a pretty clear indication he'd have the job. He is the lone player at that position that wa s not here in the spring so he has some catching up to do although he already has earned praise from his new teammates. If Jones isn't the starter, then whoever does win the job will be the key to success on that side of the ball. - Arizona Republic
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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Emory Jones easily has the most extensive résumé among the quarterbacks on ASU's roster. Jones appeared in 37 games over four seasons with the Gators. He started 12 times last season, passing for 2,734 yards and 19 touchdowns. He also rushed for 759 ya rds and four scores. Sun Devils coach Herm Edwards wouldn't go so far as to declare Jones QB1, although it'd be a surprise if that weren't the outcome. "Great work ethic," Edwards said. "Has some leadership qualities that you like. He has experience. Tha t helps you. "It will be interesting at that position how that boils out...But with that being said, you got to make a decision sooner than later at that position because it's probably the most important position on any football team at any level. You go t to get that one right. "You got to get him in place so he can play with the players he's going to play with on offense. There will be some competition there, and then we'll have to make a decision." - Arizona Star News
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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The Arizona State Sun Devils football team added another quarterback to its roster on Thursday in Florida transfer Emory Jones. Jones announced his commitment via Twitter. He also visited ASU last month, according to Arizona Sports' John Gambadoro. The f ormer fifth-ranked dual-threat quarterback out of high school spent the last four seasons at Florida. Jones is coming off of a 2021 campaign in which he threw for 2,734 yards and 19 touchdowns on 64.7% passing while throwing 13 interceptions.He al so led the team with 759 rushing yards on 143 attempts to go along with four scores en route to a 6-7 season for the Gators. Jones also marks the sixth quarterback on the roster behind Alabama transfer Paul Tyson, redshirt sophomore Daylin McLemore, reds hirt junior Trenton Bourguet, redshirt freshman Finn Collins and true freshman Bennett Meredith. - ArizonaSports.com
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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Florida coach Dan Mullen celebrated his team's 70-52 victory against lower-division Samford like nothing was wrong. He sang with his team, posed for pictures, shook hands with fans and then made excuses for one of the worst defensive performances in scho ol history. It was more surreal than the Gators' first-half numbers Saturday. "Calling a win disappointing is disrespectful to the game and our players," Mullen said. Emory Jones accounted for 550 yards and seven touchdowns, delivering a career performan ce that may have - at least temporarily - saved Mullen's job. Although the Gators (5-5) ended a three-game skid, the offensive shootout in the Swamp felt more like a loss than any outcome in Mullen's four years in Gainesville.Florida gave up a sea son-high 530 yards and its most points (42) ever in any half, and those defensive lapses came against a middle-of-the pack team from the Southern Conference and less than a week after Mullen fired two of his top assistants. Maybe defensive coordinator To dd Grantham and run game coordinator John Hevesy weren't the only problems. Mullen vowed to get Florida fixed following their departures that came after last week's 40-17 drubbing at South Carolina. No one expected it to happen overnight. But the Gators lacked energy Saturday, looked lost at times and trailed by as many as 14 points in a game they were favored to win by more than five touchdowns. "I don't know if people were nervous or what, but slow start," Gators linebacker Mohamoud Diabate said. "We were able to get going at halftime, get fired up and come out and finish the game." - Florida/AP College Football
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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Emory Jones had a career-high four touchdowns passes, potentially quieting calls for backup Anthony Richardson, and No. 20 Florida routed woeful Vanderbilt 42-0 Saturday. It was a feel-good victory for the Gators on homecoming after a gut-wrenching loss at Kentucky essentially knocked coach Dan Mullen's team out of contention in the Southeastern Conference's Eastern Division. Florida (4-2, 2-2 SEC) won its eighth straight in the series and its 30th in the last 31 meetings. The Commodores (2-4, 0-2) drop ped their 15th consecutive league game.Jones was the star of this one. He completed 14 of 22 passes for 273 yards, with TD passes to Ja'Quavion Fraziars, Trent Whittemore, Dameon Pierce and Jacob Copeland. Pierce also scored twice more on short ru ns. Richardson played sparingly for the second straight week. His first pass was intercepted. He returned the following series but ended up giving way to Jones until getting back on the field for mop-up duty in the fourth quarter. Vanderbilt had several chances to make it more competitive, but Alabama transfer Joseph Bulovas missed three field goals. He was errant from 39, 41 and 33 yards out. The Commodores also had a touchdown overturned when Chris Pierce failed to maintain possession on a fourth-down catch when he hit the ground in the second quarter. - Florida/AP College Football
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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SEPT 27 SEC CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Emory Jones, QB, Florida,...Set career-highs in passing yards (209), completions (21), and rushing yards (144)...With 209 yards passing and 144 yards rushing, Emory Jones became the first Gators player to pass for 200-plus yards and rush for 100-plus yards in the same game since Tim Tebow accomplished the feat on Nov. 21, 2009 vs. FIU...Jones' 144 yards rushing are the fourth-most by a Gators quarterback in a single game in the last 25 years and the third-mos t by any FBS quarterback this season...His 147 yards rushing was most by an SEC player this week. - SEC Football
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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Emory Jones had two touchdown passes to go with a career-high 144 yards rushing, leading No. 11 Florida to a 38-14 victory over Tennessee on Saturday night and extending nearly two decades of dominance in the series. The Gators (3-1, 1-1 Southeastern Con ference) won their fifth straight and 16th in 17 years in a series that used to go a long way toward deciding the Eastern Division. First-year Tennessee coach Josh Heupel is trying to get it back there. The second half showed he's still got a way to go. The Gators, who bounced back from a gut-wrenching loss against top-ranked Alabama in the Swamp a week ago, scored on consecutive drives in the third quarter to turn a three-point game into comfortable lead. Jones was at his best during those possessions. With dynamic backup Anthony Richardson still nursing a strained right hamstring, Jones completed three straight passes that set up a trick-play touchdown. Jones lateraled to Trent Whittemore, who found Kemore Gamble in the end zone for a 13-yard s core. It was Florida's first trick-play TD in three years. Jones ran for 43 yards on Florida's next drive and capped it with a 9-yard TD pass to Rick Wells. Jones completed 21 of 27 passes for 209 yards on the night and ran 15 times, with a long of 49 ya rds. He became Florida's first QB to top 200 yards passing and 100 yards rushing since Tim Tebow in 2009 against Florida State. Tebow accomplished the feat four times in four seasons. It was the first time Jones didn't have a turnover this season. - Flor ida/AP College Football
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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Starter Emory Jones or backup Anthony Richardson. Florida coach Dan Mullen insists the 13th-ranked Gators (2-0) don't have a quarterback controversy or a reason to change the depth chart after Richardson outplayed Jones for the second straight game in a 42-20 rout of South Florida on Saturday. "We have two quarterbacks that are pretty talented guys that can make things happen on the field," Mullen said. "But there are a lot of things quarterbacks have to do." Jones and Richardson shared playing time, wi th each having his way in the opening half against a USF defense that allowed touchdowns on five consecutive possessions after producing a three-and-out to start the game. Jones threw a 35-yard TD pass to Xzavier Henderson and scored on a 33-yard run on the way to a 35-3 halftime lead before a crowd of 66,646 at Raymond James Stadium.The redshirt junior from LaGrange, Georgia, was not nearly as effective the rest of the way, though, tossing a pair of interceptions and turning the ball over on dow ns on four straight possessions to begin the second half. "I thought (Jones) played much better this week than last week. I just thought we got sloppy in the second half," Mullen said. "I feel like I came out a little slow in the second half, which led t o those two interceptions," Jones said. "Just bad decisions by me. I shouldn't have thrown those balls." Richardson, meanwhile, took an astounding passer rating of 917.2 into the fourth quarter after completing his first two attempts to Jacob Copeland on scoring plays of 75 and 41 yards before halftime. The 6-foot-4, 236-pound backup from Gainesville, Florida, completed his only pass of the second half for 36 yards to finish 3 of 3 for 152 yards, two TDs and a 745.6 rating that seemingly would be diffic ult for Mullen to ignore with top-ranked and defending champion Alabama visiting The Swamp next Saturday. - Florida/AP College Football
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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Following a shaky first career start last Saturday, Gators quarterback Emory Jones took ownership of his performance in the postgame news conference and again during his media availability Monday. Jones accounted for nearly 200 yards of total offense and a touchdown pass in Florida's 35-14 win over FAU, but threw two interceptions and had a turnover on downs on fourth-and-goal. "I missed too many throws that I never miss," Jones said after the game. "It's me getting more comfortable, just being out ther e actually being excited. Got to lock in and get better every week." Jones vowed to get back in the lab and have better attention to detail, and he's done that this week according to Florida coach Dan Mullen.During his appearance Wednesday on the SEC teleconference, Mullen offered his take on why Jones struggled in the season opener. "Overall, he played pretty well last Saturday, but made some errors that he's not used to making," Mullen said. "I don't know if trying to do too much is the word. A lmost trying to be too perfect, too exact, mind is going in a million different directions trying to do too many things on the field instead of trusting your fundamentals, your techniques and doing what you're supposed to do. "I think this week in practi ce I've seen that. You've seen him this week, 'Make sure my feet are exact. Am I on balance? ... My mind's not trying to process a million things. My mind's focused on what's important and what I need to do.' I've seen that and that's a good step forward ." - Gainesville Sun
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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Florida coach Dan Mullen insists he has no quarterback controversy: Emory Jones is the starter, and Anthony Richardson remains the backup following a 35-14 victory against Florida Atlantic on Saturday night in which one clearly outplayed the other. Jones was far from sharp in the Swamp, finishing with a touchdown and two interceptions in his first career start, but the fourth-year junior had some moments to build on moving forward. He did much of his damage with his legs, finishing with 74 of the team's 400 yards rushing.Wearing the No. 15 that Tim Tebow made popular in Gainesville, Richardson looked more ready for the spotlight. He ran seven times for 160 yards, including a 73-yard score late in the game and an 11-yarder in which he broke three tackles and hurdled another defender. He missed his final five passes and finished 3-for-8 for 40 yards. "He's exciting with the ball in his hands, isn't he?" Mullen said of Richardson. "He's going to be a great player for us. I think you saw that tonig ht. His athleticism. He's a special guy with the ball in his hands." But Mullen made it clear that Jones has a better grasp of the entire offense right now and will keep his job. The outside noise, though, surely will be loud for the next week or two. "H e went out there and did his thing," Jones said of Richardson. "I'm happy for him." - Florida/AP College Football
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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Jones has thrown for 613 yards with seven touchdowns and one interception on 55-of-86 passing (64 percent) in his UF career, while rushing for 514 yards and six touchdowns on 92 carries. He's been efficient and productive in a limited capacity, accountin g for over 1,110 yards of total offense. Mullen is confident Jones can handle more of the playbook and will give him the freedom to make his own calls. "We put it all in on him," Mullen said. "It's not like he's a freshman or hasn't been around. That's p art of the experience. He's played meaningful snaps in each of the last couple seasons. He's a guy that I feel pretty comfortable (with). We'll just throw the whole thing out of him and let him go." "I think he knows he has the ability (to audible) if he sees something that he likes or that's different that we weren't planning for. A lot of times you get into a game, especially one that you don't have much film to go watch, you have to be very flexible during the course of the game. He's a guy I have th e confidence in that if he sees something, he can check to it and go take what he sees."Mullen mentioned during preseason camp that Jones, due to his dual-threat ability, executes calls differently than Trask. Sometimes Jones will take chances tha t Trask didn't and miss, but when he hits, the result is often an explosive play. "He has so many different ways that he can make explosive plays that, you know, you're going to live with certain things," Mullen said of Jones. - Gainesville Sun
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Feleipe Franks' ankle was mangled in a Kentucky pileup. Dan Mullen felt confident sending Trask in to rescue Florida from an 11-point deficit, but Mullen was also holding his breath. "He was going into a situation I had not seen him in, and how he was go ing to handle that," Mullen said. Trask handled it well. So well that the other quarterback Mullen planned to use that September afternoon never got off the bench. Two years later, Emory Jones' moment has arrived like a slow train everybody saw coming. B ut the eternal QB question is still in play. Is Jones ready? "There's nothing that tells me he's not going to handle it as good as anyone I've ever had," Mullen said.That should make you feel better if you're nervous about the main topic of conver sation going into preseason camp. Mullen is a modern-day Henry Ford when it comes to quarterbacks. He's built an assembly line that keeps rolling out successful products. But if you're not the least bit nervous about the Gators' QB succession, you're suf fering a case of blind faith. For all the confident talk we'll hear in the next few weeks, not even Jones knows for sure if he's ready to assume the throne. The truth is, nobody can know until it happens. All we can do is look at what's led up to that mo ment, and then make a prediction. - Gainesville Sun
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Florida quarterback Emory Jones didn't attend SEC Media Days this past week, but his presence was still felt in Hoover, Ala. He was the first player Dan Mullen mentioned at the podium and a talking point in every room his coach entered - especially radio row. Why bring two defensive players instead of Jones? That was one of the first questions Mullen received from reporters. "I don't know if there's two more guys that have really earned the right to be here more than Ventrell [Miller] and Zach [Carter], " Mullen said. "I try to bring guys that have the experience, veteran guys." Jones isn't a vet for the Gators yet, but certainly has experience on offense. He's played every year since his true freshman season in 2018 despite being behind Feleipe Franks and Kyle Trask on the depth chart.It's now No. 5's turn to start, though first he must beat out Anthony Richardson for the job in training camp. Jones has made the most of limited opportunities and, more importantly, elevated his game. "He has con tinued to develop throughout his career. He has got a strong arm and he is a dynamic playmaker with his feet and he has experience," Mullen said of Jones. "If you look at his progression, I mean, he came in as a very celebrated high school player, highly ranked. I think for a couple years now, he's learned, he's grown, he's developed. "He's a completely different player than he was when he walked in, in his understanding of the game and in his maturity. … I think Emory has shown maturity from early on . It wasn't, 'I have to play from day one.' It was, 'I have to continue to be developed from day one to prepare for my moment and my time.' And that's what he's been able to do." - Gainesville Sun
(DS#29 QB) rSr/2024 QB Emory Jones, Cincinnati
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