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UConn's Byron Jones Takes Skills To Next Level: NFL

Byron Jones played for the Connecticut Basketball Club, an American Athletic Union team in New Britain, from the time he was 10 through his sophomore year at St. Paul High School in Bristol.

The start of one game in particular stood out. The team was doing layup drills, and Jones, 13 at the time, completed his bank shot by jumping a little higher than his teammates. When he returned to the layup line, the coach's son was first privy to the revelation.

"'Richie, I can dunk,'" Fritz Conway, who coached Jones, remembered Jones saying.