It's official; Sam Darnold is a GREAT teammate. The projected number one overall pick in the upcoming draft visited the Browns facility on Wednesday as part of the team's pre-draft player evaluation and had planned to return to LA on Thursday afternoon.But when he heard that former college teammate Ronald Jones, who was unable to participate in USC's Pro Day last month due to injury, had his rescheduled Pro Day early Thursday morning, Darnold made sure he would be there. The 20-year-old changed his flight to an earlier time to ensure he was there to throw for his buddy in front of NFL scouts. 

Jones is also a potential first-round pick, but underwhelmed with his 4.65 40-time at the combine and had to reschedule his workout after suffering a hamstring injury that prevented his full participation in USC’s Pro Day. 

The versatile back improved his time to an impressive 4.48 in the forty Thursday and showed off his ability to catch balls out of the back field with a little help from his college QB. 

After a hugely impressive display in the rain at his Pro Day, Darnold is widely considered the favorite to be the number one overall pick of the Browns come draft day, but that didn’t stop him from going out of his way to lend a helping hand Jones.

Darnold's leadership and likeabelity amongst teammates has been consistently lauded throughout the build up to the draft, and the reasons for that were plain to see on Thursday.

USC's offensive coordinator Tee Martin told Ohio.com how the situation unfolded and what kind of person it shows Darnold is: 

“When you talk about what kind of guy he is, who does that when you have everything to lose and nothing to gain by doing that?” Martin said. “He had a teammate call him out of the blue. It wasn’t something that was planned.

“He gets a call yesterday, and he drops everything else. [Darnold said], ‘Yes, I’ll be there for you, man,’ and gets on an airplane, lands in L.A. this morning, comes over at like 6:30 in the morning and throws for Ronald Jones. I mean, it’s crazy. And everyone’s like, ‘What, Sam?’ No one expected him to be here, and he’s here because he said, ‘Hey, man, my teammate called. He needed me.’ So he came. That’s unbelievable.”

Jones also shared that opinion and told reporters in LA: “He’s always been the man,”.

Darnold, by all accounts, just loves football and can't wait to see where he ends up going come April 26.