Jeff Traylor

Jeffrey Michael Traylor (born May 9, 1968) is an American football coach. He is the head football coach at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), a position he has held since the 2020 season.

Early life Traylor attended Gilmer High School and graduated in 1986. He attended Stephen F. Austin State University, where he was a walk-on for the Lumberjacks football program. He earned both his undergraduate (1990) and graduate (2002) degrees in education.

Career High school Traylor began his coaching career at Big Sandy High School, where he spent four years as an assistant coach from 1989 to 1992. He was later hired as an assistant coach at Jacksonville High School from 1993 to 1999, where he served as passing coordinator, defensive backs coach, receivers coach and special teams coordinator. At Gilmer, Traylor coached future NFL players Kenneth Pettway, Manuel Johnson, Curtis Brown, David Snow, G. J. Kinne, Gus Johnson, Blake Lynch, and Kris Boyd.

Texas Traylor began his collegiate career in 2015 at the University of Texas at Austin as the special teams coordinator and tight ends coach under Charlie Strong before becoming the Longhorns associate head coach for offense and wide receivers coach in 2016. While with the Texas Longhorns football program Traylor helped sign the No. 7-ranked recruiting class in the country in back-to-back years and was named Big 12 Recruiter of the Year.

SMU In 2017, Traylor became the associate head coach and running backs coach for Southern Methodist University before joining the Arkansas Razorbacks in the same role. Both of these jobs were under coach Chad Morris who had also previously been a Texas high school coach.

Arkansas For the 2018 and 2019 football seasons, Traylor served as the associate head coach and running back coach at the University of Arkansas under head coach Chad Morris.

UTSA In December 2019, Traylor left the Arkansas Razorbacks football program to become the third head coach in program history at UTSA.

Traylor tested positive for COVID-19 on December 23, 2020, and missed the 2020 First Responder Bowl as a result.

In 2021, Traylor led the Roadrunners to their best start in program history for a season, winning their first eleven regular season games before finishing the regular season 11-1. The UTSA Roadrunners also secured their first conference championship, defeating Western Kentucky 49-41, followed by a bowl bid to the 2021 Frisco Bowl, losing to San Diego State University by a score of 38-24, posting a final record for the year of 12-2.

Personal life Traylor married his wife, Cari, in 1992. They have three children: Jordan, Jake, and Jaci. Jordan played as a quarterback for Gilmer High School and the Texas A&M Aggies.

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