The Cleveland Browns have big dreams for the 2024 NFL season. A lot of that depends on the play (and presence) of quarterback Deshaun Watson, whose 2023 campaign was cut short by injury. Keeping Watson safe under center will, of course, be part of the Browns’ top priorities in the coming season, and that would require right tackle Dawand Jones to be at the top of his game.
Jones already turned heads with his play on the Browns’ offensive line in 2023, his first year in the NFL. That season, Pro Football Focus gave him an overall grade of 64.7. He rated high in pass blocking with a 73.0 rating to go with a 53.5 run-blocking grade.
PFF believes Cleveland Browns’ Dawand Jones is in for a breakout campaign in 2024
Speaking of PFF, the site’s Gordon McGuinness recently named Jones to his 2024 All-Breakout Team.
A mountain of a man on the right side of the offensive line, Jones showed off his pass-blocking potential in his rookie season,” McGuinness said about Jones.
“He allowed just 21 total pressures from 419 pass-blocking snaps and had only two games where he earned a PFF pass-blocking grade below 60.0.”
Jones took over as a starter for the Browns in 2023 following the season-ending injury suffered by Jack Conklins in a Week 2 24-3 win at home against the Cincinnati Bengals. Jones suffered a season-ending knee injury that led to an injury-reserve designation in December.
The Browns’ front office deserves credit for landing a talent like Jones, whom Cleveland selected in the fourth round (111th overall) of the 2023 NFL Draft.
“You’re in a great organization if you fall with the Browns,” Jones said last April (via Camryn Justice of News 5 Cleveland). “Stay humble, be blessed no matter where you go, keep your head down and just keep working always. That’s what I really tell myself, tell younger guys who ask me for help, and I would tell the guys [drafted by the Browns] that same thing.
Jones played four years in college with the Ohio State Buckeyes from 2019 to 2022.
Be the first to comment