Jeff Nixon (American football coach), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jeff Nixon (American football coach)

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1974

Place of Birth: Rochester, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: coach

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Jeff Nixon (American football coach)

  • Jeff Nixon is an American football who currently serves as the co-offensive coordinator/running backs coach at Baylor University.
  • He was previously the tight ends coach for the San Francisco 49ers under Chip Kelly.
  • 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.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.
  • He was promoted to Wide Receivers Coach 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.
  • Jeff Nixon was hired by the Miami Dolphins after being named running backs coach on January 20, 2011.
  • He coached for the Miami Dolphins for 5 seasons.
  • 2015 would be Nixon's last season with the Miami Dolphins.
  • On January 26, 2016, he was hired by the San Francisco 49ers and new head coach Chip Kelly, to coach the tight ends position.

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