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Brandon Jones – December 4, 2020 Download PDF version

Friday, December 4, 2020

S Brandon Jones

(It’s My Cause My Cleats this week in the NFL. I wanted to ask you what you’re wearing, what your cause is, who the designer is for all that stuff and how much you’re looking forward to playing with the cleats this weekend.) – “My designer is Soles By Sir. I’ve worked with him before. He does a really good job with cleats. My cause is going to be osteosarcoma, which deals with – I’ve got a story. I made a relationship with Jayden Morton, a kid that I met at Dell Children’s Hospital in Austin, Texas during my time at Texas in college. He suffers from that cancer and overall, I just wanted to be able to represent not only him, but it’s a cancer that only kind of shows in kids that range from ages 10-20, so they’re younger than me obviously, and I’ve got younger brothers. So I always put Jayden, for example, in my brothers’ shoes and I just couldn’t imagine how hard life at that age, how hard life could be with having to deal with that stuff. I’m representing for him and everybody else – all the other kids – that suffer with osteosarcoma and I’m actually going to wear them during pregame; I’m still trying to decide if I’m going to wear them during the game because I’m going to give it to him for Christmas as a Christmas gift and I really don’t want to mess them up too bad, so we’ll just kind of see how the grass holds up and stuff during pregame.”

(I just wanted to ask you, isn’t that the point that the cleats could get a little bit scuffed up or that you would wear them in a game?) – “The only thing is I’ve got his name on the back of them and I’ve worn some cleats that were custom-made before and they sometimes get a little messed up, so I’m going to have to just stay light on my toes the whole game, I guess, and try not to mess it up for him. But I already took pictures and stuff just in case it does mess up, I’ll be able to send them and show him, ‘hey, this is what they looked like before I used them in the game.’” (laughter)

(Now I’m wondering did you just inadvertently ruin the surprise? Like was that a surprise gift for him or does he know already?) – “I mean, I texted his mom about it. I don’t think he has social media, so we should be good. (laughter) I texted his mom not to say anything, but that’s another reason why I was kind of debating if I should wear them in the game because I know he’s going to be watching the game. If he sees them, he’s going to be like, ‘oh, I like those cleats, what do those cleats say?’ He’s going to end up finding out. He doesn’t know that – well, I’m kind of throwing myself under the bus – he didn’t know he was getting them. (laughter) But if he doesn’t have social media, maybe it still could be a surprise for Christmas, so we’ll see. (laughter)”

(That just had me thinking, obviously that was one of the first stories I think when we learned that you were going to be on the Dolphins, that was one of the stories that we became familiar with. How cool is it for you to kind of have this platform now – even a bigger platform than when you were at UT, to kind of raise awareness about these issues that you care about?) – “It’s super important to me and I think just overall just based off of the relationship I made with Jayden. I didn’t realize how much it would impact my life and truly make me grateful for what we do have and always kind of finding the positive out of every situation. It’s definitely tough for him and like I said, just having younger brothers, I couldn’t image just having to go through that at that age and wonder ‘why me?’ Just overall, just really, it just changed my life and made me really appreciate what we do have and what we’re able to do because that could be taken from you at any minute, any time and you never know.”

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