Taiwan Jones to the Jets, Marcus Rush to SF

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LooseGoose wrote:8. Taiwan Jones, LB, New York Jets (Michigan State)

He has the type of size and durability that you look for in a linebacker. He’s great in blitz packages and has great closing speed but will need to work on coverage skills.

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Taiwan Jones was at his home in New Baltimore, Mich., last weekend surrounded by family and friends expecting to be selected in the fourth or fifth round of the NFL draft.

That’s where the Michigan State linebacker was projected to be taken after playing in every game of his four-year career with the Spartans and having by all accounts a good showing at the East-West Shrine Game. “Card-carrying tough guy with take-on traits,” is how NFL.com described the prospect.

But the fourth round came and went without his name being called, as did the fifth, sixth and seventh rounds.

“It was a devastating experience,” Jones told The Post on Saturday at the Jets practice facility in Florham Park, N.J. “But at the same time, I knew what I had to do. I wasn’t going to get down about it. I just have to go out there and prove myself the same way I would have had to prove myself if I had been drafted in the fourth round.”