Paul Jones is entering his seventh season and eighth year year as the Roughriders’ assistant general manager, helping the team win the 2025 Grey Cup championship.
On March 25, 2026, Jones was part of a Roughriders front office that received the CFL’s inaugural Ted Goveia Football Operations Award.
Before joining the Roughriders, Jones spent 21 seasons with the Edmonton Elks, most recently as the Executive Director of Player Personnel. Jones is widely known as one of football’s most respected talent evaluators with a keen eye for players suited for the Canadian Football League.
Jones entered the CFL in 1988 with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers spending time as the director of player personnel and assistant general manager. Jones spent nine years in Winnipeg before joining the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings as a scouting consultant. He returned to the CFL in 1998, spending one season with the Toronto Argonauts before joining the Eskimos.
Jones has been a part of nine Grey Cup appearances and is a six-time Grey Cup champion, having won titles with Winnipeg (in 1988 and 1990), Edmonton (2003, 2005 and 2015) and Saskatchewan (2025). He has added 38 playoff games, including 11 division finals, through his time with Winnipeg, Toronto, Edmonton and Saskatchewan.
In 2010, Jones was inducted into the Our Lads’ Scouts Hall of Fame as the 93rd inductee. In 2015, he entered the Winnipeg Blue Bombers Hall of Fame.
Prior to working in the CFL, Jones was the Recruiting Coordinator with Northwest Mississippi Junior College, with the program winning the National Junior College Football Championship in 1982.
Born in Elaine, Arkansas, Jones now lives in Grand Bay, Alabama. He and his wife, Juanda, have four children — Shaine, Keysha, Terry and Troy — and are the proud grandparents of Donavon Fowler, Kyzer Breece, Wyatt Edsol, Brayleigh Laike, and Kynleigh Paige.