Who is Matt Jones? 49ers' QB situation has Thursday Night Football fans confused

Billy Heyen

Who is Matt Jones? 49ers' QB situation has Thursday Night Football fans confused image

The San Francisco 49ers are without Brock Purdy at quarterback on Thursday Night Football.

And for those tuning in that don't normally watch the 'Niners, there's a question of who the QB actually is.

Sometimes, the search trends available on Google are quite amusing.

That's true this time, because everyone wants to know who "Matt Jones" is.

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Who is Matt Jones?

Matt Jones is not the San Francisco 49ers' quarterback. 

That's just a slightly misheard pronunciation of the guy actually playing QB for San Francisco, who is Mac Jones.

Yeah, that's Mac Jones the former first-round pick by the New England Patriots.

Mac's full name is Michael McCorkle Jones.

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He spent last season with the Jacksonville Jaguars before joining the 49ers to back up Purdy this season. Purdy is out with a toe injury.

There is no Matt Jones involved here. It just sounds a heck of a lot like Mac Jones.

There was a Matt Jones once, a 2005 first-round pick by the Jacksonville Jaguars.

But the guy playing quarterback for the 49ers on Thursday night is Mac Jones.

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Billy Heyen

Billy Heyen is a freelance writer with The Sporting News. He is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University who has written about many sports and fantasy sports for The Sporting News. Sports reporting work has also appeared in a number of newspapers, including the Sandusky Register and Rochester Democrat & Chronicle