Jeff Nixon (American football coach)

Jeff Nixon (born October 16, 1974) is an American football coach who is the offensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers. 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.

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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.^[1] He was promoted to coach wide receivers 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. Nixon was hired by the Miami Dolphins after being named running backs coach in 2011, coaching for them until 2015.

In 2016, he was hired by the San Francisco 49ers to coach the tight ends position.^[2] Nixon was let go along with the rest of Kelly’s coaching staff in 2017 by new head coach Kyle Shanahan. He would then become the co-offensive coordinator and running backs coach for the Baylor Bears^[3] under Matt Rhule for the next three years. In 2020, Nixon joined the Carolina Panthers as the team's running backs coach under Rhule.^[4] Nixon became the interim offensive coordinator for the Panthers after Joe Brady was fired on December 5, 2021.^[5]

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