The Houston Texans recently announced the participants that have been chosen to be a part of the 2023 Bill Walsh NFL Diversity Coaching Fellowship with the team. Texas A&M strength and conditioning coach Jerry Johnson will join the Texans serving in the same position this year.
The program is geared towards getting more minority coaches exposed to NFL clubs to grow the number of minority coaches in the NFL. The Bill Walsh NFL Diversity Coaching Fellowship has been around for over 30 years and has had several Aggies participate. The two most recent being Texas A&M Sports Performance Coach Bryant Harper Jr, who worked with the Green Bay Packers, then Former Texas A&M QB and current Houston Texans QB Coach Jerrod Johnson, was with a few teams between 2017-2019.
Congrats to Coach Jerry Johnson on being selected as a 2023 Bill Walsh NFL Diversity Coaching Fellowship participant!
The program is designed as a vocational tool to increase the number of full-time NFL minority coaches#GigEm pic.twitter.com/8tXpEiU8Te
— Texas A&M Football (@AggieFootball) July 22, 2023
The Bill Walsh NFL Diversity Coaching Fellowship has the following mission statement:
Designed as a vocational tool to increase the number of full-time NFL minority coaches, all 32 NFL clubs participate each year. Specific aspects of the program — including hiring, compensation and coaching duties — are administered on a club-by-club basis”
Congrats to Coach Johnson on being selected to participate; we hope this experience leads to opportunities for him the in the future!
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