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2019 Football Roster

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John Kean

34 Deshawn Jones

  • Height 5-9
  • Weight 185
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Olympia Fields, IL
  • Highschool Rich Central

Biography

2018: Named to the All-GLVC second team after leading the Miners with 750 yards on the ground and eight touchdowns...cleared the 100-yard mark on three occasions, with a season-high 137 yards against Quincy...had 120 yards and three touchdowns against William Jewell and also had 106 yards in the season-opening win over Eastern New Mexico, which was his school- and GLVC-record 10th straight 100-yard performance...finished sixth in the GLVC in rushing during the season...had a season-long 51-yard run against William Jewell...earned his second Google Cloud Academic All-America award as a second-team selection and was also selected to the GLVC All-Academic team.

2017: Earned numerous honors in a record-setting season for the Miners…was named to All-America teams by the Associated Press (second team in NCAA Division II) and D2Football.com (honorable mention), as well as to the D2CCA Super Region 3 squad and was one of the nominees for the Harlon Hill Award…named to the All-GLVC first team…finished fourth in NCAA Division II with a school record 1,579 yards on the ground, establishing a new GLVC regular season record along the way…also broke records for touchdowns in a game with five vs. Quincy and for a season with 16…set the S&T single-game rushing record with 275 yards – with four touchdowns along the way – in a win over Saint Francis (Ill.)…also rushed for 211 yards, the fifth-most in S&T history, against McKendree and 191 against Quincy, the eighth-most in a game…became the first player in GLVC history to rush for at least 100 yards against every opponent during a season…became the first player in Miner history with touchdown runs of at least 60, 70 and 80 yards in the same season…led the GLVC in points scored with 96…was a two-time pick as the GLVC “Offensive Player of the Week”, earning the honor on Oct. 9 and Nov. 13…selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-America team as a second-team selection and as the GLVC’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year in football.

2016: Finished his freshman season at S&T as the team’s second-leading rusher with 333 yards and four touchdowns…averaged 5.3 yards per carry…had the Miners’ top rushing performance of the season with 136 yards on 10 carries in a win over Lincoln and scored twice in that game…also had two scoring runs in his collegiate debut against Bacone.

High School: Was voted as his team's most valuable player in each of his last two seasons at the high school level and accumulated over 2,000 all-purpose yards in his senior year...named first-team all-Southland Suburbs after running for better than 1,500 yards last fall...graduated among the top 20 in in high school class.

Personal: Attended Rich Central High School, where his coach was Terrel Alexander...son of Jessyca Randolph...majoring in biological sciences at Missouri S&T.

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Historical Player Information

  • 34

    2016Freshman

    RB
    5'9" 185 lbs
    34
  • 34

    2017Sophomore

    RB
    5'9" 185 lbs
    34
  • 34

    2018Junior

    RB
    5'9" 185 lbs
    34
  • 34

    2019Senior

    RB
    5'9" 185 lbs
    34