Jeff Nixon (coach)
| San Francisco 49ers | |
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| Position: | Tight ends coach |
| Personal information | |
| Date of birth: | October 16, 1974 |
| Place of birth: | Rochester, Pennsylvania |
| Career information | |
| High school: | State College (PA) |
| College: | Penn State |
| Career history | |
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Jeff Nixon is an American football tight ends coach of the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). 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.[1]
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.[2]
Coaching tree
NFL head coaches under whom Jeff Nixon has served:
- Andy Reid, Philadelphia Eagles (2007-2010)
- Tony Sparano, Miami Dolphins (2011)
- Joe Philbin, Miami Dolphins (2012-2015)
- Chip Kelly, San Francisco 49ers (2016–present)