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| Born: | (1959-12-31)December 31, 1959 (age 65) Tallahassee, Florida, U.S. |
| Career information | |
| High school: | Carrollton (AL) Pickens |
| College: | Alabama |
| Position: | Safety, running back |
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Amos Jones (born December 31, 1959) is anAmerican football coach who was the assistant coach of special projects & situations for theNew York Giants of theNational Football League (NFL).
Jones playedsafety andrunning back at theUniversity of Alabama, underBear Bryant. He graduated from Alabama with his bachelor's degree in 1982, and later earned a master's degree from Alabama.[1]
Jones began his NFL coaching career as an assistant special teams coach for thePittsburgh Steelers. He was hired on January 29, 2007.[1] He worked under special teams coachBob Ligashesky and head coachMike Tomlin. He had previously worked with Tomlin as well as former Steelers offensive line coachLarry Zierlein in the late 1990s at theUniversity of Cincinnati. Other connections with the Steelers staff included serving under (former) offensive coordinatorBruce Arians when he was head coach atTemple in the 1980s and playing and coaching atAlabama during the late 1970s and early 1980s when Steelers assistant head coachJohn Mitchell served at the Tide's defensive line coach.
Prior to joining the Steelers, Jones had coachedfootball for 26 years—four seasons at the high school level; 21 seasons at the college level atAlabama,Temple,Pitt,Tulane,Cincinnati,James Madison, andMississippi State; and a single year with theCanadian Football League'sBC Lions.[1]
Jones was retained by the Steelers as assistant special teams coach when Ligashesky was replaced byAl Everest as the Steelers' special teams coordinator in 2010. When Everest was fired by the team just prior to the2012 season, Jones took over responsibility for all of the special teams. In 2013 Jones was hired by the Arizona Cardinals.[2]
Jones grew up inAliceville, Alabama.[3] He is a 1978 graduate of Pickens Academy, a private school inCarrollton, Alabama.[4] He was baptized in theSouthern Baptist faith on the same day as his father.[5]
Jones and his wife Stacey (formerly Stacey Merkle)[6] have four children.[1] Their oldest daughter and son attended the University of Alabama on the Bear Bryant Scholarship and graduated from the establishment in 2011 and 2015, respectively. The family makes their off-season home on a farm inPickens County, Alabama, located betweenAliceville andCarrollton.[4]