Bobby Jones - #89 - WR - None - Profile

PRO: "Good things seemed to happen whenever Bobby was in the game last year," Michaels said. "He filled in well for Wesley Walker and always seemed to come up with the big play." ...played in 16 games and started 3 when Walker was out with calf injury .. finished with 16 catches for 239 yards (14.9 avg.) and 1 TD ...his miracle 36-yard TD at Miami, which was ranked as the 3rd best catch in all sports by Inside Sports, tied the game with only 1:09 left ...also raced 61-yards with a fumble for a TO vs. Buffalo at Shea ...had 4 catches for 64 yards in playoff game vs. Buffalo, including a 30-yard TD ...played in 15 games and started 4 in 1980 when he caught 14 for 193 yards ...started the last 7 games of the 1979 campaign in place of Walker and had an outstanding average of 19.9 yards per catch (19 for 379 yards) ...also can return kickoffs and punts ...has been among the leading special teams performers in his 4 seasons ...played almost exclusively on special teams as a rookie when he caught just 1 pass ...only the 5th player in Jets' history to make the squad without college experience.

PERSONAL: Wife Cheryl. ..daughter Erica 2...a true Cinderella story ...was a 160-pound quarterback and defensive back at Brookfield (Ohio) High ...enrolled at Millikin (Decatur, 111.) but left after two weeks because he was homesick ...later attended Youngstown State ...got a job as a mechanic at Toby Gibson's Auto Body Shop in Brookfield ...played for semipro team, Senango Valley (Pa.) Blasters (which later became Sharon Old Express), in 1975 and part of 1976 before team folded ...got a tryout with the Jets because a friend, Bill Kushner (who wrote the book "My Son Joe" with Joe Namath's mother), knew Jets' scout Carroll Huntress ...paid his own way to camp in July, 1977, and impressed everyone with his speed ...Jets couldn't sign him because his college class wouldn't graduate until 1978...drove home in his 1970 Thunderbird and got a job working on schoolbus engines ...tried out again in May, 1978, ran the 40 in 4.55 and signed as a free agent...nephew of Tom Jones, former player with Cubs and Indians ...is third cousin of former Dodger great Carl Furillo ... birthplace; Sharon, Pa .... hometown: Brookfield, Ohio.

From 1982 Jets yearbook.