All-Tidewater defensive lineman Joe Jones from Green Run High School in Virginia Beach has made an oral commitment to Virginia Tech.
 
Green Run coach Shawn Wilson said that Jones picked the Hokies over Maryland and Georgia Tech.
 
Jones, who played in Tennessee as a junior, is one of 31 players committed to the Hokies for 2008. Twenty-two of them are from Virginia.
 
"He's one of the best defensive linemen I've seen down here in 10 years," Wilson said.
 
Jones is rated the No. 27 senior in Virginia by The Roanoke Times.