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Jones recognized as National Player of the Week Honorable Mention

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Gaby Velasquez
Adrian Broaddus, Sports Editor • November 8, 2016

After his dominant 228 rushing yards and two touchdown game against Houston Baptist, standout running back Aaron Jones was named to The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award National Player of the Week Honorable Mention on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

Even though he only had 14 carries during Saturday’s game, he surpassed the 1,000 rushing yard mark for the season, and climbed up to No. 2 for the program’s leading rusher. He only needs 68 yards to surpass John Harvey as the program’s leading rusher.

With his field day on Saturday, Jones also became Conference USA’s leading rusher with 1168 yards this season.

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Adrian Broaddus, Sports Editor
Adrian Broaddus is the sports editor for The Prospector. He is a junior multimedia journalism major with a minor in political science.   Adrian was born and raised in El Paso, TX, and is a graduate of Franklin high school. He entered college in the fall of 2015 in hopes to better his career in journalism.   Along with sports, Adrian enjoys writing music reviews, perspective columns and news stories on politics.   Although he is pursuing his degree in journalism, Adrian would like to go to law school and be an attorney while doing part-time work in journalism.  
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