MSU’s top 50 football players: No. 45 Greg Jones

This is the sixth in a 50-day summer series counting down the top players in Michigan State football history, as I see them. As with last year’s MSU basketball top 50, the criteria is performance and impact at MSU only, professional career irrelevant. Have your own opinion? Leave a comment or tweet at me @Graham_Couch.

No. 45 - Greg Jones

Linebacker, 2007-10, Cincinnati

The skinny: Jones is among the most decorated linebackers in MSU history, the first consensus All-American in back to back seasons since George Webster and Bubba Smith in 1965 and ’66. Jones’ junior season in 2009 was his best at MSU — a Big Ten-leading 154 tackles, multiple national linebacker of the year honors, and selected Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. - Read more at LSJ.com