| Set career marks in multiple categories during his first season with the Bears. Expected to share carries with Cedric Benson in 2005. Signed a four-year deal with Chicago during 2004 off-season. Originally drafted by the Arizona Cardinals with the seventh overall selection in the 2000 draft. Traded to Tampa Bay in 2003 for WR Marquise Walker.
2004: Experienced career-best season after establishing career-highs in rushes (240), rushing yards (948), touchdowns (7), receptions (56), receiving yards (427) and average yards per reception (7.6)... Started all 14 games played, missing Games 8-9 with a sprained left foot... Accumulated career-best 1,375 total yards from scrimmage and accounted for 36% of the Bears total offense, second- highest percentage in the NFL (T. Barber, 44%)... Became first Bears player since Neal Anderson in 1989 to lead the team in both rushing yards and receptions... His 56 catches ranked 3rd in the NFL among RBs and broke Walter Payton's franchise record of 53 receptions by a RB set in 1983... Rushed for over 100 yards 4 times after cracking the 100-yard mark only 3 times in his previous 55 career games.
2003: Played all 16 games in lone season in Tampa Bay and recorded the second-most productive season ever for a Buccaneers RB with at least 100 attempts by averaging 4.6 yards per carry. Strong second-half of season in which he rushed for 548 yards propelled him to his fourth consecutive campaign as his team's second-leading rusher, totaling a career-high 627 yards and team-high 3 TDs on 137 carries. Contributed in the return game for the first time in his career, ranking 2nd on Bucs with 271 return yards on 17 kickoffs with a long of 25.
2002: Opened season as NFC rushing leader with 300 yards after 3 games, before injuries limited him to ranking as Arizona's second-leading rusher for the third consecutive season. Started all 9 games in which he played, all in the first 11 weeks of the season, while rushing for 511 yards and 2 TDs on a career-high 138 carries. Ranked 7th in receiving with 20 catches for 113 yards.
2001: Ranked as Cardinals second-leading rusher with 380 yards and 5 TDs on 112 carries while starting 2-of-16 games. Arizona's sixth-leading receiver and 2nd among RBs with 21 for 151 yards.
2000: Played in 14 games as a rookie with Arizona, starting 4, while finishing as the team's second-leading rusher with 373 yards and 2 TDs on 112 carries. Ranked 4th on club in receiving with 32 catches for 208 yards.
COLLEGE: Concluded Virginia career (1996-99) with 3,998 yards with 809 carries, 36 rushing TDs and 40 total TDs... Received All- ACC first team and ACC Player-of-the-Year honors as a senior.Set school single-season record with 334 carries for 1,798 yards and 16 TDs while amassing an ACC single-season record 2,054 all-purpose yards... First team All-ACC as a junior with 238 carries for 1,303 yards and 11 TDs... Earned bachelor's degree in psychology in May 1999, leaving him to compete during his senior season as a graduate student.
PERSONAL: Finished prep career at Powell Valley H.S. in Big Stone Gap, Va. with single-season state rushing records for yardage (3,319 in 1994), TDs (49 in 1995) and career TDs (104 from 1992- 95)... Son of Thomas and Betty Jones is 1-of-7 children... Younger brother Julius is a second-year RB with the Dallas Cowboys. |