Jones has eased into his role as leader of the defense with some urging from head coach Dan Quinn and linebackers coach Jeff Ulbrich.

“It’s his communication that has taken a big jump, in my opinion, over the last month,” Quinn said. “The alerts for the other players at the line-of-scrimmage, the calls, those are the things that don’t show up on the stat sheet, but from a coaching side of things we know the importance of that.”