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49ers' D.J. Jones couldn't be happier with marriage of football, life

SANTA CLARA -- The town of Scooba, Mississippi, with a population 700 is a long way from -- and, at the same time, tantalizingly close to -- college football’s premier conference.

D.J. Jones found himself in the small town, home to East Mississippi Community College, after his grades in high school prevented him from going somewhere in the SEC or any other four-year school.

Jones said on The 49ers Insider Podcast that he was 110 percent disappointed in himself that he ended up at the junior college that would later become the setting for the Netflix series “Last Chance U.