Free agent running back Kevin Jones is working out, rehabilitating his injured knee and hoping to sign with an NFL team.

And he’s using a new coach on his old team, Lions offensive coordinator Jim Colletto, as motivation.

Nicholas J. Cotsonika of the Detroit Free Press spent today watching Jones work out, and he reports that before a couple of sprints, Jones yelled out “Colletto” to fire himself up.

“Before I got let go, the weeks leading up to that, I would hear him on the Internet or on the Web site saying that, ‘We need a back who can make people miss. We need a back who can take it the distance,’ ” Jones said of Colletto. “Well, I’m on the team. I’m the starting running back. He’s basically saying you don’t need me, you need somebody else. So I’m going to show him that I am that back, that I can do those things.”

Jones said he has visited the Patriots and Titans, and he said he has received contract offers, but that none paid him as much as he thinks he’s worth.“I’m not trying to break the bank, but I’m not about to go anywhere just to go, just because there’s a team out there and I haven’t gotten picked up yet,” Jones said. “I know my worth. A lot of the teams know my worth, but they figure, ‘OK, you’re hurt right now. We’ll bring you in.’ They’re just going to lowball you. But that’s not happening with me.”

It will likely be at least another month before Jones signs anywhere; he says he has scheduled a June 28 workout and NFL coaches, scouts and executives are invited.