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Among the greatest scholar-athletes to have ever played the game, Barrett Jones posted a perfect 4.0 GPA while earning All-America accolades on three Alabama national championship teams.
 
The only four-time Academic All-American in the history of Alabama football, Jones graduated summa cum laude with an accounting degree in 2011. He continued his success in the classroom by adding a master’s in accounting in December 2012, graduating with a perfect 4.0. A member of the University Honors Program, Jones was named the Academic All-American of the Year in 2012 and took home SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year laurels in 2011. He was inducted into eight different honoraries and was a three-time recipient of the Commitment to Academic Excellence Award.
 
On the field, Jones was equally successful, leading the Tide to three national championships in his four years in Tuscaloosa. He was a three-time All-America performer at three different positions, earning First-Team honors in his final two seasons.
 
As a junior, he won the Outland Trophy as the nation’s best interior lineman while playing at left tackle, then took home the Rimington Award as the nation’s best center as a senior. The Memphis, Tennessee, native was a three-time First-Team All-SEC selection and was named the 2011 Jacobs Blocking Trophy recipient as the conference’s lineman of the year.
 
The 2011 Wuerffel Trophy winner and member of the 2012 AFCA Good Works Team, Jones participated in mission trips to Haiti and Nicaragua, distributing food, working at schools and orphanages, and helping with construction projects.

In the 2013 NFL Draft, he was selected by the St. Louis Rams in the fourth round with the 113th overall pick. He retired after stints with the Steelers, Bears and Eagles.
 
In 2017, Jones began working as a college football game analyst for ESPN Radio. He is also a financial advisor and certified financial planner for Strategic Financial Partners, and he currently lives in Memphis.