Daronte Jones
| Minnesota Vikings | |
|---|---|
| Title | Defensive passing game coordinator and defensive backs coach |
| Personal information | |
| Born | November 11, 1978 Capitol Heights, Maryland, U.S. |
| Career information | |
| High school | Bishop McNamara (MD) |
| College | Morgan State |
| Position | Cornerback |
| Career history | |
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Daronte Jones (born November 11, 1978) is an American football coach who is the defensive passing game coordinator and defensive backs coach for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL).
Playing career
[edit | edit source]Jones played as a cornerback for one season at Temple in 1996, but then transferred to Morgan State University.[1] His playing career ended after his second season with the Morgan State after repeated injuries led to nerve damage.[2]
Coaching career
[edit | edit source]Early coaching career
[edit | edit source]After being a graduate assistant at Lenoir–Rhyne and coaching safeties at Nicholls State,[2] he was a defensive coordinator for two years at two separate Louisiana high schools.[3] From 2005 to 2009, Jones was assistant head coach and defensive coordinator at Bowie State University in his home state of Maryland. He spent the 2010 season coaching at UCLA. After a one-year stint coaching the Montreal Allouettes of the CFL, he spent 3 years coaching at Hawaii. He then would spend a year in the Big 10 coaching at Wisconsin.[4]
Jones then began coaching in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins, where he worked as assistant defensive backs coach for two seasons.[5] The next two years he spent coaching the secondary for the Cincinnati Bengals. In 2020 he was the defensive backs coach for the Minnesota Vikings.[6]
LSU
[edit | edit source]Jones was named the defensive coordinator at LSU on January 26, 2021.[7] He was not retained for the following season.[8]
Minnesota Vikings
[edit | edit source]On February 23, 2022, Jones returned to the Minnesota Vikings as the team's defensive backs coach for the 2022 season.[9]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- LSU Tigers bio Archived 2021-01-27 at the Wayback Machine
- 1978 births
- Living people
- African-American coaches of American football
- Players of American football from Annapolis, Maryland
- People from Capitol Heights, Maryland
- Players of American football from Prince George's County, Maryland
- Coaches of American football from Maryland
- American football defensive backs
- Morgan State Bears football players
- Lenoir–Rhyne Bears football coaches
- Nicholls Colonels football coaches
- High school football coaches in Louisiana
- Bowie State Bulldogs football coaches
- UCLA Bruins football coaches
- Montreal Alouettes coaches
- Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football coaches
- Wisconsin Badgers football coaches
- Miami Dolphins coaches
- Cincinnati Bengals coaches
- Minnesota Vikings coaches
- LSU Tigers football coaches
- 20th-century African-American sportsmen
- 20th-century American sportsmen