JS Online · Apr 29, 2015
Nothing fishy about cornerback prospect Byron Jones' abilities
Connecticut's Byron Jones catches the ball during UConn's pro day.Green Bay — The world record doesn't mean much at all to him. Sure, Byron Jones took the NFL scouting combine by storm with his 44½-inch vertical and record-setting 147-inch broad jump.
In the latter event gone viral, the Connecticut cornerback resembles a human pogo stick or some half-human, half-amphibian species. It was a leap perhaps worthy of the Guinness Book of World Records, but...so what?
"There are world records for everything — eating bananas in 5 minutes," Jones said. "How many bananas can you eat? There's a world record for that, I'm sure."
