Daronte Jones
Daronte Jones is an American professional football coach who is the defensive coordinator for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League. Jones has served as the defensive coordinator of the Bowie State Bulldogs and LSU Tigers in college football.
Playing career
Jones played as a cornerback for one season at Temple in football team|1996], but then transferred to Morgan State University. His playing career ended after his second season with the Morgan State after repeated injuries led to nerve damage.Coaching career
Early coaching career
After being a graduate assistant at Lenoir–Rhyne and coaching safeties at Nicholls State, he was a defensive coordinator for two years at two separate Louisiana high schools. From 2005 to 2009, Jones was assistant head coach and defensive coordinator at Bowie State University in his home state of Maryland. He spent the 2010 season coaching at UCLA. After a one-year stint coaching the Montreal Allouettes of the CFL, he spent 3 years coaching at Hawaii. He then would spend a year in the Big 10 coaching at Wisconsin.Jones then began coaching in the National Football League with the Miami Dolphins, where he worked as assistant defensive backs coach for two seasons. The next two years he spent coaching the secondary for the Cincinnati Bengals. In 2020 he was the defensive backs coach for the Minnesota Vikings.