3 potential replacements for Texas WR coach Andre Coleman

Emmett Jones, Texas Tech wide receivers coach

One of the first names that should be considered in connection with the Longhorns job opening at wide receivers coach should be the former Kansas Jayhawks and Texas Tech Red Raiders wide receivers coach Emmett Jones. This former North Texas Mean Green wide receiver has spent most of his days at the college football coaching ranks as a wide receivers coach in the Big 12.

It all started for Jones at the Power Five level in terms of his coaching career as a director of player personnel with Texas Tech from 2015-2016. He was then promoted to be the Texas Tech wide receivers coach for the next few years.

The first position that Jones would really hold outside of Lubbock came as the Kansas wide receivers coach from 2018-2021. Jones first joined Kansas’ staff when Les Miles was the head coach. He rounded out his tenure on the Jayhawks’ staff this fall under new head coach Lance Leipold.

Jones is set to rejoin the Texas Tech staff as their wide receivers coach for 2022 after the Red Raiders hired the former Baylor Bears associate head coach Joey McGuire to replace Matt Wells as their next head coach.

But as a former South Oak Cliff High School football head coach with a connection to the Texas special teams coordinator/tight ends coach Jeff Banks, there are ties in multiple places for Jones that would be valuable to the Longhorns. He could theoretically recruit the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex well and help the player development of the current wideouts on the Forty Acres.