- Mark Jackson (football coach)
Infobox NFL PlayerCoach
Name=Mark Jackson
Color=Black
fontcolor=#c4c8cb
DateOfBirth=birth date and age|1972|09|14
Birthplace=Boston, Massachusetts
College=Colby
Position=Director of Football Development
coach=yes
coachingyears=1995-1996
1998-2000
2001-2005
2006
2007-"present"
coachingteams=Trinity
(Graduate Assistant)New England Patriots
(Special Teams Coaching Assistant)
USC
(Director of Football Operations)
(Assistant Athletic Director)Syracuse University
(Executive Senior Associate Director of Athletics)Oakland Raiders
(Director of Football Development)Mark Jackson (born
September 14 ,1972 inBoston, Massachusetts ) is the director of football development for theOakland Raiders of theNational Football League .Playing career
Jackson attended
Colby College , where he played football as adefensive back from 1991 to 1994.Coaching career
Jackson began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at
Trinity College (Connecticut) from 1995 to 1996. After earning hismaster's degree inpublic policy from Colby in 1997, Jackson joined theNew England Patriots ' coaching staff as a special teams coaching assistant under then-Patriots head coachPete Carroll in 1998. Carroll was fired following the 1999, but Jackson stayed on with new head coachBill Belichick 's coaching staff as a special teams and running backs coaching assistant through 2000. In 2001, Jackson rejoined Carroll, then the head coach at theUniversity of Southern California , as the school's director of football operations and assistant athletic director, a position he held through 2005. In 2006, Jackson served as Executive Senior Associate Director of Athletics atSyracuse University before being hired as Vice President of Athlete Development at theboxing development firm A2 Holdings. In 2007, Jackson was hired byOakland Raiders coachLane Kiffin as the team's director of football development.External links
* [http://www.raiders.com/Team/CoachBio.aspx?id=17264 Oakland Raiders biography]
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