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2024 Football Roster

Mason Hart, ESU Athletics
Wade Smith, ESU Athletics
Josiah Driggers, ESU Athletics
Josiah Driggers, ESU Athletics

2 Lavon Jones

  • Position Linebacker
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 225
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown St. Louis, MO
  • Highschool Desmet Jesuit HS

Biography

Awards/Honors
2023
  • CSC Academic All-District
  • MIAA Academic Honor Roll
2022
  • MIAA Academic Honor Roll
2021
  • MIAA Academic Honor Roll
Notes on Jones
  • In his fifth year at Emporia State
  • Named 2024 Team Captain
  • Played in 25 career games with 68 total tackles.
RS-Junior Season (2023)
Played in all 12 games and made 62 tackles with 1.5 sacks and recorded multiple tackles in ten games … Tallied eight tackles against Missouri Western (9/30) … Recorded eight more tackles against Pittsburg State (10/7) … Set career-high with ten tackles against Central Missouri (10/21) … Picked up nine tackles, including his first career sack against Nebraska-Kearney (10/28) … Matched career-high with ten tackles against Fort Hays State and added 0.5 sacks … Made four tackles and recovered a fumble in the Fun Town RV Heritage Bowl against Southern Nazarene (12/2).
 
RS-Sophomore Season (2022)
Played in seven games and made one tackle … Made lone tackle against Southeastern Oklahoma (12/3) in the LIVE United Bowl.
 
RS-Freshman Season (2021)
Played in six games and made five tackles … Recorded first career tackle against Pittsburg State (9/25) … Had first multi-tackle game with two tackles against Washburn (10/2) … Made two tackles against Lincoln (11/6).
 
Freshman Season (2020)
Redshirted … COVID season.
 
High School
Attended Desmet Jesuit HS in St. Louis, MO … Named both First Team All-Conference and First Team All-District.

Statistics

Season:
2024

Season Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 2020Freshman

    Linebacker
    6'0" 210 lbs
  • 36

    2021Redshirt Freshman

    Linebacker
    6'0" 214 lbs
    36
  • 36

    2022Redshirt Sophomore

    Linebacker
    6'0" 214 lbs
    36
  • 36

    2023Redshirt Junior

    Linebacker
    6'0" 219 lbs
    36
  • 2

    2024Redshirt Senior

    Linebacker
    6'0" 225 lbs
    2