CINCINNATI -- For the better part of two months, Cincinnati Bengals receiver Marvin Jones has had "no limitations" as it pertains to the ankle he injured last year.

He told reporters Monday that video that surfaced at the start of February showing him running and cutting on the sand at a Southern California beach was his way of letting the football universe know he had returned to his old self.

"It's just a way of showing everybody that I'm back and that I'm working and stuff like that, and that the ankle is fine," Jones said.

The fourth-year wideout missed all of the 2014 season after trying to fight through an ankle issue first suffered while working out that March, several weeks before the start of that year's organized offseason workout period. His desire to compete through the injury may have caused an injury on the other leg, as he broke a bone in that foot trying to overcompensate for the bum ankle on the other leg. Weeks later, as he attempted a mid-season, post-broken foot return, Jones experienced another ankle issue, causing him to just sit out the entire season.

Jones feels like his body is at 100 percent, but he won't know for certain until he starts regularly running routes and catching passes at full speed.

"We'll see when I get out there, but I can do everything that I did before," Jones said. "There's no problems, there's no limitations."

Jones had two surgeries last fall, one to his foot and the other to his ankle. The foot surgery set screws to help heal the break. The ankle procedure cleared out bone chips that had gotten loose as a result of the prior injury there. He's now about seven months past that procedure.

"I'm not going to say I don't feel it, of course I do feel it," Jones said. "But I can do everything for as long as I want."

Some of what he's done has included running routes and receiving. Sometime just before he returned to Cincinnati in early March, Jones caught passes one morning with quarterback Andy Dalton, who was training in the area with acclaimed throwing specialist Tom House.

"He was running good," Dalton said of Jones.

Jones' training regimens for the two months he trained near his hometown of Fontana, California, began routinely at 5 a.m. PT. He worked out four days a week, taking Wednesdays off. During his training, the goal was to put his body in unstable and uncomfortable positions to hone his balance and strengthen his ankle.

Cincinnati could use the 2013 version of Jones. That's the player who helped A.J. Green set a franchise record for having multiple receivers with 10 or more touchdown receptions in a single season. That was the same player who caught 51 passes for 712 yards, and the one who the Bengals had expected last season before the injuries.

If Jones can return to his old form, he could wrest the No. 2 receiver duties from Mohamed Sanu. With other injuries sacking the position group -- like the three Green had -- Sanu went from being the No. 3 preseason option at receiver to the primary target. A healthy Jones could help the Bengals avoid a similar predicament this season.