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2022 Football Roster

Dan Sanger

87 J.J. Jones III

  • Position TE
  • Ht./Wt. 6-3 / 235
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Tracy, Calif.
  • High School Merrill F. West HS
  • Previous School Dartmouth

Biography

2021 (Senior at Dartmouth)
Helped lead Dartmouth to the 2021 Ivy League Championship … Earned Second-Team All-Ivy League honors at tight end … Finished with a 35-5 record over his four seasons at Dartmouth, the best class record in school history … Saw action in 10 games as a senior, recording career highs in receptions, yards, receptions per game, average reception, and reception yards per game … Posted a season-high two receptions twice (at Valparasio and at Harvard) … Had a season-long 31 yard reception at New Hampshire … Hauled in a 24-yard touchdown in the season finale at Brown.

2020 (Senior at Dartmouth)
Season canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

2019 (Junior at Dartmouth) | Game-by-Game Stats
Saw action at tight end and on special teams in eight of the 10 contests … lone catch came in the Ivy League opener at Penn … A member of the 2019 Ivy League Championship Team.

2018 (Sophomore at Dartmouth) | Game-by-Game Stats
Played in all 10 games as a tight end and on special teams … all six of his receptions came during scoring drives … caught one pass in each of the first three contests for a combined 19 yards … hauled in a season-long 32-yard pass at Sacred Heart two plays before Dartmouth ran into the end zone during the 42-0 blanking of Sacred Heart … caught a pair of throws at Cornell, the first a 22-yard touchdown for the Big Green’s second score in the 35-24 victory … other reception against the Big Red was a modest 4-yard gain to start the next drive that led to another touchdown and a 21-0 lead before the end of the first quarter.

2017 (Freshman at Dartmouth)
Worked on his game with the junior varsity.

HIGH SCHOOL
Two-time captain for Merrill West earned Tri-City Athletic League first-team and honorable mention all-area honors as a senior while being named the team MVP … caught 14 passes for 177 yards and two touchdowns in six games as a senior according to MaxPreps … drew interest from more than two dozen schools despite playing on a winless team as a senior … recipient of the Scholar Athlete Award as a junior … also lined up at defensive end … can also long-snap … captained the baseball team as a senior as well, earning a spot on the all-conference first team … California Scholarship Federation member … California Boys’ State delegate for the American Legion.

PERSONAL
Full name is James Randolph Jones III … son of James Jones Jr. and Tiah Fehling has a brother and sister … father played tight end at New Mexico State … grandfather, James Jones Sr., played at Texas El Paso and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers … has an older sister, Jasmine, and a younger brother, Jacob … enjoys camping and kayaking … puts ketchup on broccoli for some unknown reason … earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at Dartmouth before enrolling at NM State as a graduate student.

Statistics

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