DeMarcus Covington
DeMarcus Covington is an American football coach who is the defensive line coach and run game coordinator for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. He previously served as an assistant coach at the New England Patriots, Eastern Illinois University, the University of Tennessee at Martin, University of Mississippi and University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Early years
Covington played collegiately at wide receiver for the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision Samford Bulldogs where he registered 62 receptions for 586 yards and two touchdowns from 2007 to 2010. He graduated from Samford in 2011.Coaching career
College
Covington began his coaching career a year after he graduated in 2012 as defensive graduate assistant at the University of Alabama-Birmingham for the Blazers. In 2013 he went to the Southeastern Conference where he spent two seasons as a defensive graduate assistant at Ole Miss. In 2015, Covington coached the defensive line at UT Martin. This was followed by 2016 when he spent the college football season as the co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach at Eastern Illinois.New England Patriots
Covington joined the organization in and was a coaching assistant for two years before becoming the teams outside linebackers coaching in. He won his first Super Bowl title when the Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII. In 2020 he was moved to coaching the defensive line.On February 1, 2024, he was promoted to defensive coordinator. Covington was not retained by the Patriots upon the hiring of Mike Vrabel.