Byron Jones And His Breakout NFL Combine
I ran across a really cool article at Business Insider about an NFL prospect out of UCONN who less that 2 years ago was interning in Connecticut political offices and just recently had one of the best NFL combines of the year. Byron Jones, a cornerback out of UCONN, was a normal college kid positioning himself for life after graduation. He worked for a Connecticut state representative as a college sophomore during Spring Break, and he parlayed that into a summer internship with another Connecticut congressman a few months later. While he was preparing more for a career in politics than a career in the NFL, Jones had a work ethic and leadership skills that are marketable in any career field. State representative Joe Aresimowicz, whom Jones worked for during his sophomore year Spring Break, had this to say about Jones: "He has this incredible work ethic. He also has this grasp of how to get people to work together, that was on display almost immediately....