Amos Jones

Amos Jones (born December 31, 1959) is an American football coach who is currently the special teams coordinator for Alabama A&M. He has coached for over 40 years in college football and for several NFL teams as a special teams coordinator and position coach.

College playing career Jones played safety and running back at the University of Alabama, under Bear Bryant. He graduated from Alabama with his bachelor's degree in 1982, and later earned a master's degree from Alabama. He worked under special teams coach Bob Ligashesky and head coach Mike Tomlin. He had previously worked with Tomlin as well as former Steelers offensive line coach Larry Zierlein in the late 1990s at the University of Cincinnati. Other connections with the Steelers staff included serving under (former) offensive coordinator Bruce Arians when he was head coach at Temple in the 1980s and playing and coaching at Alabama during the late 1970s and early 1980s when Steelers assistant head coach John Mitchell served at the Tide's defensive line coach.

Prior to joining the Steelers, Jones had coached football for 26 years—four seasons at the high school level; 21 seasons at the college level at Alabama, Temple, Pitt, Tulane, Cincinnati, James Madison, and Mississippi State; and a single year with the Canadian Football League's BC Lions.

Personal life Jones grew up in Aliceville, Alabama. He is a 1978 graduate of Pickens Academy, a private school in Carrollton, Alabama. He was baptized in the Southern Baptist faith on the same day as his father.

Jones and his wife Stacey (formerly Stacey Merkle) have four children. 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 in Pickens County, Alabama, located between Aliceville and Carrollton.