Freddie Jones starting over again
Posted Jun 16, 2005
Former UNC tight end Freddie Jones, who recently joined the Carolina Panthers, says he wants to shed the label of being just a "receiving tight end" and focus on becoming a complete player in all facets of the game. "I got to a point in my career where a lot of people thought I'm 'Freddie the Receiving Tight End.' And honestly, there were a couple of other teams I was looking at in the offseason where that's what my role was going to be," he said. "But I came here and we all know what they like to do. These guys like to run the ball, and they do it well. So now I'm buying into that. I want to be an all-around tight end." In other words, he wants to shore up his blocking game.
(Winston-Salem Journal)
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