First Full Time African American Female NFL Coach
The Washington Redskins are working on hiring Jennifer King who will become the NFL’s first African American FEMALE FULL-TIME assistant coach. She will be the fourth full-time female but the only one who is African American. King would be joining Ron Rivera’s coaching staff in DC which is pretty familiar for her because she was an intern for Rivera when he was the head coach of the Carolina Panthers, there King was a wide receiver coaching intern starting in 2017 and had been every year since then up until Rivera was let go.
King was started her coaching career in college and not in football it was in basketball. King went on to play in the Women’s Football Alliance then she began to coach youth and high school football. She was an offensive assistant at Dartmouth College was a coach alongside Hines Ward as an assistant wide receivers coach in the Alliance of American Football with the Arizona Hotshots. King’s full time position with the Redskins comes on the heels of Katie Sowers making history as the first female and openly gay coach in Super Bowl history.
