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'11 TX ILB Kellen Jones (Signed to Michigan)

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St. Piux X H.S. (Houston, TX)

Ht: 6-foot-1
Wt: 205 lbs
40: 4.6 secs

Rivals rating: 3*-5.7; #28 ILB
Scout rating: 4*; #14 MLB
ESPN rating: 3*-79 grade; #34 OLB

Reported Offers: Colorado, Arizona, Arkansas, Baylor, Illinois, Kansas State, Michigan, Missouri, Purdue, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Boise State, Houston, Wyoming
 
Junior Year Stats:

76 tackles (46 solo)
23 tackles for loss
6 qb sacks
3 blocked fg; 2 blocked punts; 1 blocked xp

1st Team All-District
1st Team All-State

Scout analysis

Amazing on the blitz, he is as instinctual as you can find. He has a feel for getting through blocking and getting in to attack the quarterback, also good at blocking kicks. His size is okay but it is not above average. Good speed he uses it to his advantage on blitzes and coverage. Does a great job of working through blocks.

Strengths: Speed; Athleticism
Areas for Improvement: Pass Coverage Skills; Size
 
Jones is attending the CU Junior Day on March 6th.

Rivals Article:

Houston St. Pius X linebacker Kellen Jones is being recognized as one of the most explosive linebackers in the region not by recruiting pundits, but by college recruiters.

The 6-foot-1 linebacker displayed a tremendous combination of size, speed, physicality and football IQ his junior season, earning him TAPPS all-district and all-state honors.

"He is getting a lot of interest right now from all of those schools," father Sean Jones said. "He's focused on football 100-percent and working hard on his strength and flexibility. He's pretty open and a school's proximity is not really an issue to him."

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Trips to Arkansas, Illinois, Oklahoma State, Northwestern, Texas Tech and Miami are also planned.

Jones had previously tripped to Georgia Tech over Chrismas, according to Scout.

Landing Jones would be a major coup for CU. Hopefully he and Poston are tight.
 
Rivals reports that we offered Jones when he visited for Junior Day:

After taking an unofficial visit to Colorado last week, the Buffalo coaching staff threw their hat into the Jones sweepstakes, joining Arkansas and Kansas State.

"It was a great trip and the coaches had genuine concern from me as a person and a student athlete," he said.

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Having Poston on the roster should help the Buffs here, but it looks like an uphill battle.
 
Jones verbaled to Michigan this week.

Maybe we still get a visit. Maybe Rich Rod loses his job and Jones opens things back up. Long time until NSD, but this looks solid for the Maize & Blue.
 
Might be looking around now that the Michigan situation has changed. Kanavis is on this, according to AZ.
 
Arkansas sending the love, recruit says

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By Richard Davenport
6:00AM on April 16th, 2010
Linebacker Kellen Jones has the right attitude for his position.


“I love to hit, I love to hit,” Jones said laughing. “When the season starts everyone is excited. You hear the fans, the crowd and I love to make contact and knock somebody into the dirt.”

Jones, 6-1, 210, 4.68 seconds in the 40-yard dash, of Houston’s St. Pius X has scholarship offers from Arkansas, Missouri, Purdue, Houston, Kansas State, Colorado, Arizona and Stanford. Razorback offensive line coach Chris Klenakis has impressed Jones with his recruiting style.*


Kellen Jones

“I’m very interested in Arkansas because of the love they’ve shown me since they’ve known about me has been great,” said Jones, who reports a 310-pound bench press and 500 squat. “Coach K in particular has been great about e-mailing me and has sent some great letters. I’ve enjoyed all of the love from Arkansas.”

Jones recorded 75 tackles, 22 tackles for loss, 6 sacks, 3 forced fumbles, 3 recovered fumbles, 1 interception, 1 safety along with blocking 4 punts and 2 field goals as a junior.

“As a linebacker, I’m very instinctive,” said Jones, who has a 3.4 grade-point average and plans to major in mathematics and engineering.* “I’m very good on the blitz. I’m aggressive to the ball and I’m a great pass rusher. I’m very passionate about the game.”

Klenakis had a recent phone conversation with Jones and discussed him attending Arkansas’ junior day this Saturday.

“I look forward to meeting the coaching staff and getting to know them better and know more about Arkansas.” Jones said.

Jones, who has visited LSU, Colorado, Houston and Oklahoma State, desires good academics, a winning football program with a history of excellence along with a nice city.

“I just don’t want to be in the middle of nowhere,” said Jones, who plans to visit Missouri, Arizona, Stanford and Purdue this summer. “I would love to have great surroundings. A true college experience, a great urban area.”
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Good academics...check
Football tradition...check
Nice city...check
Not in Texas...check

Go get him Kanavis!
 
Really hope we can get him in for an official visit. Give him a couple years in a college weight program and I think he can be a very good ILB.

His school also churns out a fair amount of Division 1 football prospects.
 
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Multiple sources reporting that Jones is visiting this weekend.

:gobuffs:
 
He's from a Michigan football family. Sounds like he's looking for backup plans in case whoever is hired in Michigan decides to not honor his offer there. Michigan lock unless that happens imo.
 
AZ says that Arkansas is out of the mix. If Jones makes another trip after CU, it looks like it will be Miami. Otherwise, it's between Michigan and the Buffs.
 
SnowBuff said:
Hope he enjoyed that game. He could contribute immediately.
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Really like him as a prospect, but I think a redshirt year would do him wonders.

I think buffaholic is right on this one. I would be surprised if he is not a Wolverine in the end, but obviously hope I am wrong.
 
After seeing him at the game I now give it 50-50. Embree and staff actually DO know how to do this thing (recruit).
 
I don't have any inside info here and I won't go into details. But everything is different. Even Cabral seems different. The staff doesn't intend to lose and everything about their demeanor states it. Instead of Hawk's crew (Kiesau, etc) joking and laughing and asking recruits to be their friend, inviting them to Boulder where everything will be beautiful, you quickly realize that Embree isn't trying to make friends. He wants some mean nasty football players who want to win. Period. Take your 5 stars and gtfo.....

I came away from this weekend believing every kid who visits is 50% minimum. FWIW.
 
buffaholic said:
I don't have any inside info here and I won't go into details. But everything is different. Even Cabral seems different. The staff doesn't intend to lose and everything about their demeanor states it. Instead of Hawk's crew (Kiesau, etc) joking and laughing and asking recruits to be their friend, inviting them to Boulder where everything will be beautiful, you quickly realize that Embree isn't trying to make friends. He wants some mean nasty football players who want to win. Period. Take your 5 stars and gtfo.....

I came away from this weekend believing every kid who visits is 50% minimum. FWIW.
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buffaholic said:
I don't have any inside info here and I won't go into details. But everything is different. Even Cabral seems different. The staff doesn't intend to lose and everything about their demeanor states it. Instead of Hawk's crew (Kiesau, etc) joking and laughing and asking recruits to be their friend, inviting them to Boulder where everything will be beautiful, you quickly realize that Embree isn't trying to make friends. He wants some mean nasty football players who want to win. Period. Take your 5 stars and gtfo.....

I came away from this weekend believing every kid who visits is 50% minimum. FWIW.
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Embree was hired to turn this program around and bring CU back to national prominence.

No way in Hell JE is going to do things the same way ol' DII did
 
Only way Jones commits to the Buffs is if the new Michigan coaches find a way to piss him off.
 
Too bad....Uphill battle for JE with the late start, but victories next year and establishing (or re-establishing from the 90s) the Buff network in Texass and California will turn this bitch around.
 
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