CARDS: Topps AAF 2019, Topps AAF 2019 Certified
ACQUIRED: 2020, Box Breaker. 2021, Future Considerations
FAILURE: TTM 2019, C/o Home

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

• Malachi Jones played for 2012-’15 at WR for Appalachian State.
• An UDFA of the Atlanta Falcons in 2016, he’d be cut after mini camp.
• Malachi took his game to the NAL to the High Country Grizzlies in 2017.
• In 10 contests, he caught 66 passes for 685 yards and 16 TDs.
• After a short stint in the American Arena League’s Atlanta Havoc, he signed with the Albany Empire in 2018.
• He had a solid debut, catching 77 passes for 1156 yards and 29 TDs.
• After being signed and cut by the Bears, Malachi signed with the Atlanta Legends of the AAF in late 2018.
• Despite the team’s QB woes, he caught 22 passes for 312 yards and 2 TDs over 8 contests.
• After the league folded abruptly, Malachi resigned with the Albany Empire in 2019.
• He had a spectacular return to the Arena Football League with 96 catches for 1,440 yards and 25 touchdown catches.
• Malachi helped the team win the Arena Bowl XXXII after the season.
• Although he was selected by the Seattle Dragons of the relaunched XFL, Jones opted to sign with the Montreal Alouettes.
• In 2021, he returned to the Albany Empire, but the league quickly fell apart.
• This led Malachi to play for the Carolina Cobras in 2022.

ACCOLADES:

• NAL Offensive Rookie of the Year 2017
• Arena Football Offensive Rookie of the Year 2018
• Arena Football Wide Receiver of the Year 2018

NOTES:

I hadn’t had any luck with Malachi, when a friend of mine on Facebook who knew him, reached out and said he could get him for me.

He also collected World League stuff like I did. I helped him out on a few addresses, and he helped me. Then like that, overnight, he disabled his Facebook and I never saw him again.

Later Malachi had a good laugh when I sent him a Tweet of me in my Atlanta Legends Malachi Jones jersey sneaking in to represent the AAF during an XFL 2020 broadcast in H-Town.