This should have been a relatively uneventful Pro Day at the University of Washington, as the Huskies’ top NFL draft prospects – four of them with first-round potential – already showed plenty at the scouting combine earlier this month.
Instead, cornerback Sidney Jones went down with a left leg injury during his final positional drill – a source close to Jones later confirmed that he tore his Achilles tendon, as originally feared – casting a pall over what had been an impressive workout to that point before a crowd of a few dozen NFL evaluators.
Jones, a two-time, first-team All-Pac-12 selection and a projected first-round draft pick, was backpedaling when he pulled up, fell to the ground and immediately grabbed at his left leg.