Within days of Patrick Graham taking over as Raiders defensive coordinator, he has found his DB coach. He is former Jaguars DB coach Chris Ash according to Ryan Dunleavy of the New York Post. Bruce Feldman of The Athletic confirmed the hire.
#Raiders are hiring former #Jaguars DBs coach Chris Ash as their new DBs coach, per source. So, former #Giants DC Patrick Graham hires former #Rutgers head coach Chris Ash. It's a full New Jersey story! #raidersnation
— Ryan Dunleavy (@rydunleavy) February 6, 2022
Prior to spending the 2021 season with the Jaguars, Ash was a coach at the college level. Most prominently spending four seasons as head coach at Rutgers (2016-19).
Ash started out the DC at Drake (1998-99). From there he spent nine years as a DB coach at the Division I level at Iowa State (2002-06, 2009), San Diego State (2007-08), and Wisconsin (2010).
He got the DC gig at Wisconsin (2011-12), then Arkansas (2013), then Ohio State (2014-15) and later Texas (2020) before joining Urban Meyer’s staff in Jacksonville.
The Jaguars’ team was terrible overall last season, so it’s hard to know how good of a job he did. Opponents didn’t put the ball in the air much (fifth fewest attempts) and therefore they were near the bottom in interceptions (7), just above the Raiders (6) at dead last.
