The San Francisco 49ers drafted Mississippi defensive tackle D.J. Jones in the sixth round of the 2017 NFL draft, and it was one instance where attention to detail was particularly important.
After the draft, John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan were wrapping things up with the media and Jones came up. It turns out, there were two D.J. Jones’ that came out of Ole Miss.
Moving down to [DL] D.J. Jones is a guy who has, from Ole Miss, there’s two D.J. Joneses at Ole Miss.