Jeff Nixon (American football coach)
| Carolina Panthers | |
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| Position: | Assistant Head Coach (Offense) |
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| Born: | October 16, 1974 Rochester, Pennsylvania |
| Career information | |
| High school: | State College (PA) |
| College: | Penn State |
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| Coaching stats at PFR | |
Jeff Nixon (born October 16, 1974) is an American football coach who is the assistant head coach for the Carolina Panthers. He played college football at West Virginia from 1993-1994 before transferring to Penn State, where he earned Dean’s List and Big Ten Conference All-Academic Team recognition. Nixon earned a degree in elementary education from Penn State in 1998 before receiving his master's degree in education administration from Shippensburg in 2003.
Career
Nixon began his coaching career in 1997 as a student assistant coach at Penn State. He was running backs coach at Princeton in 1998. Nixon served as running backs coach at Shippensburg from 1999-02. From 2003-05, he coached at Tennessee-Chattanooga, where he worked with the running backs, tight ends and as a special teams coordinator and recruiting coordinator. Nixon served as the running backs coach at Temple University in 2006.[1] He was promoted to coach wide receivers after the season. Nixon also spent the four seasons (2007–10) with the Philadelphia Eagles coaching staff where he was an assistant coach working with the special teams as well as the offense, with a focus on the running back position. Nixon was hired by the Miami Dolphins after being named running backs coach in 2011, coaching for them until 2015.
In 2016, he was hired by the San Francisco 49ers to coach the tight ends position.[2] In 2017, Nixon became the co-offensive coordinator/play-caller and running backs coach for the Baylor Bears[3] under Matt Rhule for the next three years. In the 2018 season, Baylor averaged 460 yards of total offense (including 290 yards passing per game), ranking in the Top 20, in the country, in both total offense and total passing. In the 2019 season, the Nixon led offense averaged 36 points per game (17th in the country) and helped guide Baylor to a Top 10 rank and a Sugar Bowl birth playing against the Georgia Bulldogs.
Panthers
In 2020, Nixon joined the Carolina Panthers as the team's running backs coach / senior offensive assistant under Rhule.[4] Nixon became the offensive coordinator for the Panthers after Joe Brady was fired on December 5, 2021.[5] In 2022 he became the assistant head coach for the offense for the panthers.
References
- ^ "Jeff Nixon - Football Coach". Temple University Athletics. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
- ^ "Source: 49ers hire Nixon as tight ends coach".
- ^ "Jeff Nixon, Co-Offensive Coordinator (FB), Baylor Bears". 247Sports. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
- ^ "Report: Jeff Nixon joining Matt Rhule in move from Baylor to Panthers". sports.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
- ^ "Carolina Panthers fire offensive coordinator Joe Brady with team sitting at 5-7". NFL.com. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
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