Dawand Jones fell to the middle rounds due to his size in 2023, but going into Year 3, he wants to change that. In position to secure the Browns’ left tackle job, he is putting greater emphasis on his conditioning. He told reporters that he lost roughly 20 pounds, with Zac Jackson observing that he is “noticeably lighter”.
Of course, 20 pounds for a man who at one point weighed nearly 400 isn’t exactly an extreme makeover. But it’s the next step in a young player’s journey to treat his job as his profession. Dawand Jones is doing the same things we’re seeing from the Steelers’ Broderick Jones and Darnell Washington.