David Gibbs (football coach)

NFL PlayerCoach
Name=David Gibbs


Color=#b20032
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DateOfBirth=birth date and age|1968|01|10
Birthplace= Mount Airy, North Carolina
College=Colorado
Position=Defensive Backs Coach
coach=yes
coachingteams=Kansas (secondary)
Minnesota (DC)
Denver Broncos (safeties)
Denver Broncos (secondary)
Denver Broncos (DB)
Auburn (DC)
Kansas City Chiefs (DB)
coachingyears=1995-1996
1997-2000
2001
2002
2003-2004
2005
2006-"present"

David Alexander Gibbs (born January 10, 1968 in Mt. Airy, North Carolina) is an American football coach for the Kansas City Chiefs in the National Football League. Gibbs serves as the defensive backs coach for the Chiefs and has previously been defensive coordinator of the Auburn Tigers and the Minnesota Golden Gophers, as well as a defensive assistant coach of the Denver Broncos. Gibbs is the son of another NFL coach, Alex Gibbs.

Playing career

Gibbs begain his playing career at Auburn High School, in Auburn, Alabama, while his father was defensive coordinator at nearby Auburn University. Gibbs went on to attend the University of Colorado, where he was a four-year letterman at defensive back from 1986 through 1990. He was named to the Academic All-Big Eight team as a senior, leading the Buffaloes to the 1990 national championship under coach Bill McCartney.

Coaching career

After graduating from Colorado, Gibbs served as a graduate assistant at the University of Oklahoma and at Colorado. In 1995, he became the secondary coach at the University of Kansas under head coach Glen Mason. When Mason was appointed head coach at the University of Minnesota in 1997, Gibbs was hired as the Golden Gophers' defensive coordinator, the youngest coordiator in Division I-A at that time. Gibbs improved a Minnesota defense that had ranked last in the Big Ten in 1996 to one that was ranked eighth in the nation in pass and scoring defense by 1999.

From 2001 through 2004, Gibbs coached defense for the Denver Broncos, which by 2003 was rated the fourth strongest defense in the NFL. In 2005, he returned to Auburn to be defensive coordinator for Auburn University, where his defense ranked sixth in the NCAA in scoring defense and led the SEC in sacks. Gibbs became defensive backs coach for the Kansas City Chiefs] in 2006, a position he currently holds.

External links

* [http://www.kcchiefs.com/coach/david_gibbs/ David Gibbs, Defensive Backs, Kansas City Chiefs]