Jeremy Pruitt

Jeremy Pruitt
Sport(s) Football
Current position
Title Defensive coordinator
Team Alabama
Conference SEC
Biographical details
Born (1974-05-28) May 28, 1974
Rainsville, Alabama
Alma mater West Alabama
Playing career
1993–1994 Middle Tennessee
1995–1996 Alabama
Position(s) Defensive back
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1997 Alabama (GA)
1998 Plainview HS (DB)
1999 West Alabama (DB)
2000 Plainview HS (DC)
2001–2003 Fort Payne HS (Assistant)
2004 Hoover HS (DB)
2005–2006 Hoover HS (DC/DB)
2007–2009 Alabama (DPD)
2010–2012 Alabama (DB)
2013 Florida State (DC/DB)
2014–2015 Georgia (DC/DB)
2016–present Alabama (DC)

Jeremy Pruitt (born May 28, 1974) is the defensive coordinator for the Alabama Crimson Tide football team.[1] He was the secondary coach for the Alabama Crimson Tide from 2010 to 2012 and won two national championships. Pruitt left Alabama and became Florida State's defensive coordinator in 2013, where he won a third national championship with the Seminoles.[2] In his only season as defensive coordinator, his defense was 1st in the nation in scoring defense (10.7 ppg), 3rd in the nation in total defense (248.2 ypg), 2nd in the nation in passing defense, and 1st in the nation in interceptions (26). He played college football at Middle Tennessee and Alabama.

Pruitt appeared on the TV series Two-A-Days while a coach at Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Bulldogs nab FSU Jeremy Pruitt as defensive coordinator". AJC. January 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ It's official: Alabama assistant Jeremy Pruitt is Florida State's new defensive coordinator
  3. ↑ Outspoken, persistent, intense: That's Nick Saban's newest assistant coach, Jeremy Pruitt

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