Felix Jones

• Dallas Cowboys (2008 - 2012)
• Pittsburgh Steelers (since 2013)

• All American (2007)

Felix Jones Junior ( born May 8, 1987 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American professional American football player in the position of running backs. He plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League ( NFL).

Playing career

College

Felix Jones played at the high school American football and studied for his degree at the University of Arkansas. In the Arkansas Razorbacks, he played from 2005 to 2007 as a Running Back College Football. In 2006 he scored a gain of space of 1225 yards, which corresponds to an average of 7.6 yards per run at 154 run attempts. In 2007 he was able to increase his average to 8.7 yards per run. He was elected to the All American then.

NFL

Dallas Cowboys

Jones was selected in 2008 by the Dallas Cowboys in the first round of the NFL Draft as the 22nd player. He signed with the trained at this time of Wade Phillips team from Dallas a five-year contract with an income of 10.525 million U.S. dollars. Jones was used in the offense the Cowboys as a backup running back Marion Barber III. He also received operating time on special teams as the Cowboys kickoff returner. In his rookie year he was a kickoff 98 yards to run into the end zone for a touchdown. In the 2009 season of its run average was 5.5 yards per Laufspielzug over the 4.4 yards of Barber. Jones succeeded for the first time this year with his team in the play-offs to feed.

In the years that followed did not succeed Jones to prevail against Barber. Only when this was released by the Cowboys in 2011, Jones could accrue as a starter for Dallas. But in the fifth game of the season he was injured and was replaced by rookie DeMarco Murray, who remained at starter from there.

During the five years with the Dallas Cowboys Jones scored a total of 2,782 yards and eleven touchdowns space gain by running plays, as well as 1,062 yards and three touchdowns space gained by passing trains.

Pittsburgh Steelers

On May 14, 2013 Jones signed a one-year contract with the Philadelphia Eagles, has been issued but before the start of the season by a player change at the Pittsburgh Steelers. On August 23, 2013 exchanged the Eagles Jones vs. Adrian Robinson, a linebacker from the Pittsburgh Steelers.