Northeastern State University Athletics

NORTHEASTERN STATE – A three-year letterwinner . . . has played in 33 career games with 25 starts . . . has made 20-straight starts entering his senior year and has started in 25 of his last 26 contests . . . named a 2013 USA College Football Division II Preseason All-American . . . landed on the 2012 All-MIAA Second Team and the 2012 Don Hansen All-Super Region Three Third Team . . . career totals include 246 tackles, 26.0 tackles for loss, 5.0 sacks, nine pass breakups, one interception, two forced fumbles and one fumble recovery . . . owns 10 double-digit tackle performances, including a career-high 16 against both Minnesota State in the 2011 Mineral Water Bowl (Dec. 3, 2011) and Missouri Southern State (Sept. 8, 2012) . . . led the team in tackles as both a junior and sophomore . . . named to the Lone Star Conference North Division Honorable Mention team freshman year.
 
Junior (2012) – Started all 10 games . . . led the entire MIAA and finished 10th in the nation with 110 tackles (11.0 tackles per game) . . . recorded a team-high 11.0 tackles for loss . . . named to the All-MIAA Second Team . . . also landed on the Don Hansen All-Super Region Three Third Team . . . recorded a 22-yard interception return against Southwest Baptist . . . posted a sack against Lincoln and added half sacks against both Central Missouri and Washburn . . . forced a fumble in the season opener against Pittsburg State . . . had three pass breakups on the year . . . reached double digit tackles in six games and never had less than seven . . . recorded a season-high 16 stops against Missouri Southern State . . . registered 15 stops against Central Oklahoma and 13 against both Washburn and Southwest Baptist . . . had 12 tackles against Missouri Western and 11 against Lincoln . . . added eight stops against both Pitt State and Northwest Missouri State.
 
Sophomore (2011) – Competed in all 12 contests with 11 starts . . . started the last 10 games of the season . . . led NSU with 93 tackles and was second on the team with 10.0 TFL . . . also registered 2.0 sacks, two pass breakups and one forced fumble . . . tallied a season-best 16 tackles against Minnesota State in the Mineral Water Bowl . . . posted 12 stops against Harding and 11 against both East Central and Central Oklahoma . . . also had nine tackles against Southeastern Oklahoma State . . . forced a fumble against Bacone College . . . came off the bench against Texas-San Antonio.
 
Freshman (2010) – Participated in all 11 games and started the last four games of the season as a true freshman . . . named to the LSC North Division Honorable Mention team . . . compiled 43 tackles, 5.0 tackles for loss and 1.0 sacks . . . also registered four pass breakups, one quarterback hurry and one fumble recovery . . . posted a season-high nine tackles against Texas A&M-Commerce . . . had eight stops against Southwestern Oklahoma State and seven against Eastern New Mexico . . . recorded a monster game against East Central with seven tackles, 2.5 TFL, one sack, and a 15-yard fumble recovery.
 
High School – Was a three-year letterwinner at Callisburg HS . . . named second-team all-state and the offensive district MVP junior year . . . was all-district both junior and senior years . . . named first-team all-conference as a junior . . . part of a CHS team that won the 2A state championship as a junior and finished as a semifinalist as a senior.
 
Personal – Majoring in health and human performance . . . son of Wade Jones and Tina Oliver . . . born March 22, 1991.