Thomas Q. Jones

Thomas Q. Jones is an American actor and retired football player who was born in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. He played for the Virginia Cavaliers in college and was named a consensus All-American in 1999. The Arizona Cardinals selected him seventh overall in the 2000 NFL draft. He later played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Chicago Bears, New York Jets, and Kansas City Chiefs. He retired among the top 25 rushers in NFL history and is in the 10,000 rushing yards club. In 2013 he began acting under the name Thomas Q. Jones. His film credits include Straight Outta Compton (2015), A Violent Man (2019), which he also produced, and Runaway Island (2015). On television he played Comanche on the Netflix series Luke Cage and guest starred in Being Mary Jane and Shameless. He owns the production company IME Films.