Running back Matt Jones admitted Wednesday, after completing the Redskins’ fifth day of OTAs, that he goes to sleep thinking about holding a football and wakes up thinking about holding a football.
“I am out here thinking about that ball each and every day, like I cherish the ball, something I love,” Jones said.
Such is the new lifestyle for Jones, who fumbled five times last season as a rookie and had to answer numerous and consistent questions about his ball security after each mishap. Now that the team has pegged him as the starting running back for 2016, he knew that specific part of his game needed to be improved.