Name Shawn Jones Role Football player | Positions Quarterback | |
Education Georgia Institute of Technology | ||
Shawn Jones (born June 16, 1970) was a National Football League player for the Minnesota Vikings. Jones was a four-year starter at Quarterback for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.
Contents
- High school
- College
- 1990 National Championship1991 Citrus Bowl
- Professional career
- RecordsAccomplishments
- References
High school
Jones played high school football for the Thomasville High School Bulldogs as a quarterback.
College
Jones is arguably one of the greatest Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets quarterbacks ever, leading his team to the 1990 UPI National Championship, and amassing 35 wins, 9,296 yards of total offense, and 70 touchdowns over 4 years of collegiate play. In all of Georgia Tech football history, only Jones and three other quarterbacks started all four years of their collegiate careers.
1990 National Championship/1991 Citrus Bowl
Jones led the Yellow Jackets to a Division 1-A best 11-0-1 Record in 1990 capped off with a 45-21 Citrus Bowl victory over Nebraska. Jones would be named the Bowl MVP. Led by Jones, Georgia Tech finished #1 in the Coaches Poll and was the only undefeated team of the 1990 season and would share the title with Colorado who finished #1 in the AP Poll.
Professional career
After college, Shawn went into the NFL as an undrafted safety. He played one game for the Minnesota Vikings in 1993.
He found a quarterback position from 1994–1995 for the short-lived Baltimore Stallions, an American expansion team in the Canadian Football League. He would back up legendary Georgia Southern quarterback Tracy Ham as the Stallions became the only Canadian expansion team to ever win the Grey Cup.