Name Amos Jones Status Active (coach) Role American football player | Position(s) S/RB College University of Alabama 1981–1982 Alabama (GA) | |
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Date of birth (1959-12-31) December 31, 1959 (age 56) High school Pickens Academy, Carrollton, Alabama | ||
Place of birth Tallahassee, Florida | ||
Amos Jones on Dwayne Harris’ 99-Yard Punt-Return TD | Cleveland Browns
Amos Jones (born December 31, 1959) is an American football coach who is the special teams coordinator for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL).
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- Amos Jones on Dwayne Harris 99 Yard Punt Return TD Cleveland Browns
- College playing career
- Coaching career
- Personal life
- References
College playing career
Jones played safety and running back at the University of Alabama, under Bear Bryant. He graduated from Alabama with his bachelor's degree in 1982, and later earned a master's degree from Alabama.
Coaching career
Jones began his NFL coaching career as an assistant special teams coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was hired on January 29, 2007. He worked under special teams coach Bob Ligashesky and head coach Mike Tomlin. He had previously worked with Tomlin as well as former Steelers offensive line coach Larry Zierlein in the late 1990s at the University of Cincinnati. Other connections with the Steelers staff included serving under (former) offensive coordinator Bruce Arians when he was head coach at Temple in the 1980s and playing and coaching at Alabama during the late 1970s and early 1980s when Steelers assistant head coach John Mitchell served at the Tide's defensive line coach.
Prior to joining the Steelers, Jones had coached football for 26 years—four seasons at the high school level; 21 seasons at the college level at Alabama, Temple, Pitt, Tulane, Cincinnati, James Madison, and Mississippi State; and a single year with the Canadian Football League's BC Lions.
Jones was retained by the Steelers as assistant special teams coach when Ligashesky was replaced by Al Everest as the Steelers' special teams coordinator in 2010. When Everest was fired by the team just prior to the 2012 season, Jones took over responsibility for all of the special teams.In 2013 Jones was hired by the Arizona Cardinals.
Personal life
Jones grew up in Aliceville, Alabama. He is a 1978 graduate of Pickens Academy, a private school in Carrollton, Alabama. He was baptized in the Southern Baptist faith on the same day as his father.
Jones and his wife Stacey (formerly Stacey Merkle) have four children. Their oldest daughter attends the University of Alabama. The family makes their off-season home on a farm in Pickens County, Alabama, located between Aliceville and Carrollton.