Football

Jeremy Harris enters his first season with the Wilmington College football team in 2024.

Harris joins the Quakers staff from the National Football League (NFL), after serving the 2023 season as a Defensive Backs Coach intern with the Jacksonville Jaguars. As a Jaguar, he was under head coach Doug Pederson and shadowed defensive coordinator Mike Caldwell and defensive back coaches Deshea Townsend and Cody Grimm. He helped draw offensive and defensive plays with Visio and printed play cards. He cut up videos of the opposing passing game and would warm up the defensive backs during pre-game.

He was a Skills Position and Speed & Agility Coach at Skills to Make Plays, before his time in Jacksonville, where he would work out athletes in skill position specific drills. He also mentored and worked them out mentally to help prepare them for football season.

At East Los Angeles College from 2018 to 2020, Harris was the Defensive Backs and Assistant Special Teams Coach, serving as the defensive passing game coordinator.

Harris was a captain in college at New Mexico State University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Individualized Studies in 2013. He was drafted in the 7th round of the NFL draft in 2013 and was with four different teams before transitioning out of playing after the 2016 season.  

“When we spoke with Jeremy, we were immediately impressed with his teaching progression, his desire to develop young men on and off the field, and his obvious love of the game of football” Head Coach Kevin Burke said. “The experience he has gained playing in college and the NFL, working as an intern in NFL training camps and being a secondary coach in one of the top junior college conferences in the country will help our defensive backs tremendously.”

*Last updated - April 3rd, 2024*