Hue Jackson has worked in various positions in the National Football League (NFL) and currently is the head football coach at Grambling State University. He led the Oakland Raiders to an 8-8 record in his first season as head coach and has a reputation as a talented offensive coordinator and quarterback coach. Get all of the latest Hue Jackson news here!
Hue Jackson was born on October 22, 1965, in Los Angeles, California. He began his coaching career in 1987 as a graduate assistant at Pacific, and he went on to hold coaching positions at several colleges and NFL teams. His first NFL coaching job was with the Washington Redskins in 2001, where he served as the running backs coach. He later worked as an offensive coordinator for various teams, including the Atlanta Falcons, Cincinnati Bengals, and Oakland Raiders.
In 2011, Jackson was hired as the head coach of the Oakland Raiders, where he led the team to an 8-8 record in his first season. However, he was fired after the team finished 4-12 in the following season. He then worked as the offensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns in 2014 before being promoted to head coach in 2016.
Jackson’s tenure as head coach of the Browns was marred by controversy and poor performance, as the team went 3-36-1 during his two-and-a-half-year tenure. He was fired in October 2018.
Hue Jackson then served as an assistant to head coach Marvin Lewis for the Cincinnati Bengals from November 2018 to January 2019.
Jackson accused Browns owner Jimmy Haslam of lying to him about the state of the franchise in a 2021 interview and later made similar allegations in 2022.
He joined Tennessee State’s coaching staff as the new offensive coordinator in April 2021 and was hired as the head coach of the Grambling State Tigers in December 2021.
Despite his mixed success as a head coach, Jackson is widely respected as an offensive mind and has been praised for his work with quarterbacks. He has also been an advocate for diversity in coaching, and in 2018, he founded the Hue Jackson Foundation, which aims to combat human trafficking.
