Former NFL defensive tackle Arthur Jones, who won a Super Bowl with the 2012 Baltimore Ravens, has died at the age of 39.<\/p>\n
Ravens executive vice president and general manager Eric DeCosta released a statement on Jones, calling him “kind, courteous and enthusiastic” and praising him for his “love for family, teammates and friends.”<\/p>\n
Jones is the older brother of former UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight champion Jon Jones as well as ex-NFL defensive end Chandler Jones, a four-time Pro Bowler, two-time All-Pro and one-time Super Bowl champion with the New England Patriots.<\/p>\n
The Ravens selected Jones out of Syracuse with a fifth round pick in the 2010 NFL draft. A couple years later, Jones played a key role in the team’s quest to a Lombardi Trophy.<\/p>\n
Of note, he made huge plays in Baltimore’s 34-31 win over the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl. <\/p>\n
Jones recovered running back LaMichael James’ second quarter fumble early in the second quarter with the 49ers down 7-3 and facing a 1st-and-10 from the Baltimore 24-yard line. The Ravens responded by driving down the field for a touchdown and 14-3 edge.<\/p>\n
With 25 seconds left in the second quarter, Jones stuffed 49ers running back Frank Gore on 2nd-and-2 from the Baltimore nine-yard line. San Francisco couldn’t convert the first down on the next play and had to settle for a field goal to go into halftime down 21-6 instead of 21-10.<\/p>\n
Jones also sacked 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick early in the third quarter to help shut down a drive.<\/p>\n
The 49ers went on a ferocious comeback after being down 28-6 but ultimately fell 34-31. Jones’ plays earlier in the game certainly helped Baltimore create enough of a cushion to withstand that effort.<\/p>\n
Jones was also seen publicly supporting Jon Jones and notably was by his brother’s side last November when he beat Stipe Miocic to defend his UFC heavyweight title.<\/p>\n
Multiple people offered their fond remembrances of Jones after news of his passing.<\/p>\n
Brown ended up playing seven NFL seasons for the Ravens (2010-2013), Indianapolis Colts (2014 and 2016) and Washington (2017). He participated in 64 games (31 starts) and amassed 173 tackles (99 solo), 26 quarterback hits and 10 sacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NFL defensive tackle Arthur Jones, who won a Super Bowl with the 2012 Baltimore Ravens, has died…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-200383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}