Aaron Jones tortured the Minnesota Vikings’ guard for quite a long time, averaging almost 5.7 yards per convey with 905 scrimmage yards in 11 games against the group. Subsequent to being delivered by the Green Straight Packers and afterward marking with Minnesota, Jones’ previous mentor as of late offered some fascinating understanding into what the Vikings are getting.
Aaron Jones contract: $2 million base compensation, $3.5 million cap hit in 2024
In the wake of being cut by the Packers this offseason, Jones didn’t stand by 24 hours prior to consenting to an arrangement with Minnesota. He marked a one-year bargain worth about similar sum as the Packers’ last proposal to him. With retribution plainly at the forefront of his thoughts, Vikings fans are amped up for what Jones will bring to the field.
Matt LaFleur will miss new Minnesota Vikings RB Aaron Jones… a ton
In an appearance on the This Is Football with Kevin Clark, Packers’ mentor Matt LaFleur was asked by Clark who the “greatest bad** he’s always trained” was. Decisively, LaFleur named Jones and made sense of why.
Aaron Jones, he’s a bada** football player. For a person that is 190 pounds and simply the beating that the sprinters take overall. Well, it resembles an auto collision each time they get handled. Thus, I think really, only his capacity to return from… I thought he destroyed his knee before this year when we were playing the Chargers. I actually don’t have any idea how he didn’t get seriously harmed on that play. Yet, his capacity to return later in the year and what he had the option to do. I would agree that that is pretty bada**.”
Green Narrows Packers mentor Matt LaFleur on running back Aaron Jones (H/T This Is Football with Kevin Clark)
Aaron Jones details (Green Narrows Packers): 5,940 surging yards, 5 yards for every convey, 45 hurrying scores, 272 gatherings, 2,076 getting yards, 18 scores
I plunked down with Matt LaFleur last week to ask him, similar to I ask everybody, who the greatest boss he’s consistently trained was. His response? AARON JONES. pic.twitter.com/ZsU88lpDJH
— Kevin Clark (@bykevinclark) April 2, 2024
As LaFleur said, Jones experienced a knee injury against the Los Angeles Chargers on Nov. 19. At first dreaded to be a season-finishing injury, Jones just missed three weeks of activity. He returned in Week 15, transforming 17 contacts into 69 scrimmage yards. In the wake of shaking a touch of the rust off, he was the Packers’ best hostile player to finish off the season.
In his last three customary season games, Jones arrived at the midpoint of 5.7 yards per convey across 63 surging endeavors. While he didn’t record a hurrying score, Jones was among the NFL pioneers in scrimmage yards (408) during that stretch. In the NFL end of the season games, he emitted for 3 scores and 131 scrimmage yards in a 48-32 triumph over the Dallas Cattle rustlers then transformed 18 conveys into 108 hurrying yards against the San Francisco 49ers.
Jones was the substance of the Packers’ storage space, bringing an irresistible enthusiasm and edge that touched off the whole group. Not exclusively will the Vikings be acquiring that, yet that additional force he gets 2024 to disprove the Packers and particularly in retribution games against his previous group will be something to watch.
