Matt Jones made his feelings perfectly clear when he spoke with Alfred Morris for the first time not long after he was drafted by the Washington Redskins. Morris may be the starting running back, Jones acknowledged, but he won’t be accepting a backseat to his new teammate anytime soon.
“We will compete,” Jones said, underscoring his statement with a certain resolution. “I will compete with anybody who’s in front of me.”
Jones, drafted in the third round out of Florida earlier this month, brings a dimension to the backfield that the Redskins haven’t had in some time.