Redraiders.com · Sep 11, 2015
Keeping up with the Joneses: Twins spark UTEP
Get your A-J Media Digital Subscription now!Aaron Jones is the face of this year’s Texas-El Paso Miners, and his twin brother Alvin might be UTEP’s next most prominent player.
Aaron, a 5-foot-10, 205-pound running back, was a 1,300-yard rusher last season. Alvin, a 5-11, 220-pound linebacker, is the top returning tackler on a team that plays Texas Tech on Saturday at Jones Stadium.
The Jones brothers probably thought they were capable of such all along.
Persuading others was the hard part.
“He had a couple of (scholarship) offers, nothing super big,” Alvin Jones said this week. “Me, I didn’t have any. I hadn’t planned on going to UTEP. I probably wasn’t even going to play football.”