Title Linebackers coach Role Coach Name Jason Tarver | Team San Francisco 49ers Positions Defensive back | |
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Date of birth (1974-08-28) August 28, 1974 (age 41) Education West Valley College, Foothill High School, University of California, Los Angeles, Santa Clara University | ||
Place of birth Stanford, California | ||
Raiders training camp 2012 interviews with lb miles burris and dc jason tarver
Jason Tarver (born August 28, 1974) is an American football coach who is currently the senior defensive assistant for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL).
Contents
- Raiders training camp 2012 interviews with lb miles burris and dc jason tarver
- Fall Practice 081418 DC Jason Tarver
- Early life and playing career
- Coaching career
- Personal life
- Coaching tree
- References
Fall Practice - 08.14.18 - DC Jason Tarver
Early life and playing career
Tarver attended Foothill High School in Pleasanton, California and graduated in 1993. After graduating from high school, he attended Santa Clara University from 1992 to 1997. Since Santa Clara had cut their football team after the 1992 season, Tarver decided to play defensive back at West Valley College for the 1994–1995 seasons. He graduated from Santa Clara with a bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1997.
Coaching career
After his playing career ended, Tarver served as outside linebackers, defensive backs, and special teams coach at West Valley for the 1996 and 1997 seasons, and as a graduate assistant at UCLA for the 1998 through 2000 seasons, while pursuing his master's degree. Tarver was hired as an Offensive Quality Control coach for the 49ers in 2001, and served as outside linebackers coach until 2010.
In 2011, Tarver was named co-defensive coordinator on David Shaw's staff at Stanford.
In February 2012, Tarver was hired by new Raiders head coach Dennis Allen to replace former defensive coordinator Chuck Bresnahan. In Tarver's first season as Raiders defensive coordinator, the defense improved from 29th overall in 2011 to 18th in 2012. In 2013, Tarver was fined for making an obscene gesture toward an official during a game.
In 2015, Tarver was hired as linebackers coach under San Francisco 49er head coach Jim Tomsula. Tarver stayed on under new head coach Chip Kelly in 2016.
Personal life
Tarver and his wife Katie have two sons.
Coaching tree
NFL head coaches under whom Jason Tarver has served: