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.