\u201cOne of the strength coaches, not Scott Cochran but an assistant, he thought I was a walk-on,\u201d Jones said. \u201cSo he put me in the other group with the walk-ons on the first day. I didn\u2019t know [anything], so I\u2019m like \u2018I\u2019m going to lift my a\u2014 off.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201dThere\u2019s a coach there, coach TJ, he\u2019s like an old school strength coach, and he\u2019d always call me, \u2018You\u2019re my walk-on, you\u2019re my walk-on.\u2019 Even when I was starting, \u2018You\u2019re my walk-on, you\u2019re my walk-on.\u2019 So that\u2019s where that story came from, but eventually that pissed me off.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not a walk-on, screw that. So that motivated me right there, and I was going to prove to everybody that maybe I don\u2019t look the part right now, but I\u2019m going to show them I\u2019m a dog. And I did throughout the four years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jones explained Alabama\u2019s fourth-quarter program, where players run and lift in the spring. He opened up about working out against Hurts and Tagovailoa, and it only made him stronger.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou get a shirt after every week if you do well, they maybe hand out 10 of them for the whole team,\u201d Jones said. \u201cSo all four years in a row, every week I got a shirt. So I got it like 16 times or whatever, and it was a huge deal for me. That was my goal every week: get the shirt, at least try to be the first one. I couldn\u2019t really beat Jalen because he\u2019s faster than me, but I gave him a run for my money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOne of the strength coaches, not Scott Cochran but an assistant, he thought I was a walk-on,\u201d Jones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[35956,399,281396,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-754153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-football","tag-football","tag-jumbo-package","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754153","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=754153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}