Bears rookie Velus Jones remembers the exact moment he knew he was a kick returner.
“Pop Warner, when I was in park league,” said Jones, a 6-0, 204-pound wide receiver taken in the third round of the draft last week. “When I had my first kickoff return against a real good park league team [that] at the time had lost one game since we were four years old, and we were 10 at the time. [That’s when] I realized sky’s the limit.”
As Jones remembers that moment, he was just winging it as a 10-year-old in youth football.