BLOOMINGTON — It didn’t take long for Indiana football defensive coordinator Bryant Haines to come up with a nickname for Isaiah Jones befitting of the hard-hitting linebacker’s skill set.

"Bones Jones? That's coach Haines all the way," Jones said with a smile on Tuesday. “Big UFC guy.”

Jones initially thought it was just an inside joke within the linebackers room, but it caught on quickly with the rest of the team.

“I was walking through the weight room and coach (Pat) Kuntz comes walking through and is like, ‘Bones Jones,’” Jones said in a gravelly voice. “I was like where did you hear that? That's all Haines refers to you in the meeting room as. I was like Bones Jones it is."

With the 6-foot-2, 230-pounder leading the No. 3 Hoosiers (6-0; 3-0 Big Ten) with 4.5 sacks (tied for thir

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