2021 Season Countdown: #34 Trente Jones

2021 Season Countdown: #34 Trente Jones


August 2, 2021
Trente Jones (image via 247 Sports)

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Name: Trente Jones
Height:
6’4″
Weight:
305 lbs.
High school:
Loganville (GA) Grayson
Position:
Offensive tackle
Class:
Redshirt sophomore
Jersey number:
#53
Last year:
I ranked Jones #72 and said he would be a backup offensive tackle (LINK). He played in one game.
TTB Rating:
88

Jones seems to have been lost in the shuffle over the past years, so some may have forgotten that he was an Under Armour All-American and the #108 overall player in the country. After redshirting as a freshman and then playing in just one game last season, it’s understandable that he might have been forgotten. Scuttlebutt out of practice is that he and former offensive line coach Ed Warinner did not quite see eye to eye. While Warinner has proven to be a very good offensive line coach, sometimes people just don’t mesh.

According to that same scuttlebutt, Jones and new offensive line coach (former tight ends coach) Sherrone Moore get along much better. And it doesn’t hurt that a couple starting-caliber offensive linemen moved on in Zach Carpenter (transfer to Indiana) and Jalen Mayfield (drafted by the Falcons), the latter being more significant for Jones’s case. With the right tackle position open, it appears to be coming down to Jones and classmate Karsen Barnhart to see who will start. I’ll give the edge to Barnhart, who started four games at left tackle in 2020 when Ryan Hayes was injured. But injuries always happen, and Jones should be one of the first guys off the bench.

Prediction: Backup offensive tackle

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