Tony Jones, a two-time offensive linebacker of the Super Bowl champion, died Friday. He was 54.
Jones played 13 seasons in the NFL from 1988 to 2000 and was especially part of the Denver Broncos’ championship teams in the late 1990s.
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He blocked for future Hall of Fame fullback John Elway as he was on his way to solidifying his NFL career off the top shelves.
Jones got undone when he came into the league during the 1988 season. He made his Cleveland Browns debut at 22 and played four games. He would be with the Browns and then the Baltimore Ravens before joining the Broncos for the 1997 season.
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He would make his first and only Pro Bowl appearance during the 1998 season. Denver won Super Bowls during the 1997 and 1998 seasons.
“He was an incredible guy, a witch of a nice guy,” Hall of Fame defensive rugby Steve Atwater said via the Broncos team website. “Great football player – mean, nasty. This is the kind of guy you want to go to war with when you go to war. And we were really good friends. We lived in the same neighborhood when we lived in Georgia – lived down there in Sugarloaf. We had a pretty good friendship … He and one other friend of mine, we had lunch before I moved from Atlanta, took me to lunch, I always remember how nice of a guy he was, how wonderful he was with his children. A good guy, man. “
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The details behind Jones’ death were unclear.