Landry Jones heard the question about running the football and got a little twinkle in his eye.
Thing was, the query wasn’t for him but rather for his running back teammate.
“I thought you were talking to me for a second,” Jones told the reporter.
Jones smiled.
“I thought you were talking about my scrambles,” he said Sunday after the XFL Dallas Renegades logged their first win of the season. “That is the most proud I have ever been in my life. That is the longest scramble that I’ve ever had.”
Then, he smiled some more.