Eric Sanders (American football coach)

Eric Sanders is an American football coach who is the defensive assistant for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). Sanders was on the Oakland Raiders coaching staff when Hue Jackson was the head coach. He worked as a student with the UC Davis football program before graduating in 2005 with a degree in psychology with a biological emphasis.[1]

Eric Sanders
New York Jets
Position:Defensive assistant
Personal information
Born:1983 (age 36–37)
San Francisco, California
Career information
College:UC Davis
Career history
As coach:
  • UC Davis (2003–2005)
    Video coordinator
  • UC Davis (2006)
    Tight ends coach & assistant offensive line coach
  • Utah State (2007)
    Graduate assistant/defense
  • UC Davis (2008–2009)
    Linebackers coach
  • Oakland Raiders (2010–2011)
    Offensive quality control coach
  • Oakland Raiders (2012–2014)
    Defensive quality control coach
  • Stanford (2015)
    Defensive assistant
  • Cleveland Browns (2016-2018)
    Defensive assistant
  • New York Jets (2019–present)
    Defensive assistant

He has experience coaching at the college level with UC Davis, Utah State, and Stanford. He spent five years in the NFL with the Oakland Raiders, then returned to the college ranks with Stanford before joining the Browns in 2016.

In 2005, he traveled to the Far East for coaches clinics with the American Football in China Exchange Association.[2]

Sanders is from San Francisco, California.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved February 2, 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Eric Sanders,
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