Jim O'Neil (American football)

Jim O'Neil
Oakland Raiders
Position: Senior defensive assistant
Personal information
Born: (1978-10-26) October 26, 1978
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Career information
College: Towson
Career history
As coach:
Coaching stats at PFR

Jim O'Neil is an American football coach. He is currently the Senior Defensive Assistant for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He has previously been a coach in the NFL for the New York Jets, Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns, and the 49ers. He was a coach for numerous college football teams before that.

Coaching career

From 2006-08, he was at Eastern Michigan as the recruiting coordinator and safeties coach. He was the defensive coordinator at Towson in 2005, a graduate assistant/defensive back coach at Northwestern from 2003–04, assistant offensive line coach at Pennsylvania in 2002 and an assistant offensive line/tight ends coach at SUNY Albany in 2001.[1]

O'Neil entered the NFL joining the New York Jets as a defensive quality control & defensive backs coach in 2009. He was moved to assistant defensive backs coach in 2010 and remained in that position through the 2012 season. O’Neil spent the 2013 season as the linebackers coach for the Buffalo Bills. After the 2013 season, O'Neil was hired as the defensive coordinator of the Cleveland Browns in 2014, but was relieved of his duties after the 2015 season due to a coaching overhaul after head coach Mike Pettine was fired. He was hired by Chip Kelly on January 26, 2016 to become the defensive coordinator of the San Francisco 49ers.

Coaching tree

NFL head coaches under whom O'Neil has served:

  1. ↑ http://www.buffalobills.com/team/coaches/oneil_jim/61b6e0e9-0ad1-49e7-b12f-c14d562f28ff
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Eric Mangini		 San Francisco 49ers Defensive Coordinator
2016		 Succeeded by
Robert Saleh


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