Mark Jackson (football coach)
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Mark Jackson (born September 14, 1972 in Boston, Massachusetts) is the director of football development for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League.
Playing career
Jackson attended Colby College, where he played football as a defensive back from 1991 to 1994.Coaching career
Jackson began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Trinity College (Connecticut) from 1995 to 1996. After earning his master's degree in public policy from Colby in 1997, Jackson joined the New England Patriots' coaching staff as a special teams coaching assistant under then-Patriots head coach Pete Carroll in 1998. Carroll was fired following the 1999, but Jackson stayed on with new head coach Bill Belichick's coaching staff as a special teams and running backs coaching assistant through 2000. In 2001, Jackson rejoined Carroll, then the head coach at the University of Southern California, as the school's director of football operations and assistant athletic director, a position he held through 2005. In 2006, Jackson served as Executive Senior Associate Director of Athletics at Syracuse University before being hired as Vice President of Athlete Development at the boxing development firm A2 Holdings. In 2007, Jackson was hired by Oakland Raiders coach Lane Kiffin as the team's director of football development.External links
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