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Rutgers football: Matt Hewitt is switching roles on coaching staff

Matt Hewitt has a new role with Rutgers football.

Matt Hewitt appears to be switching from defense to offense on the Rutgers football staff. The move is another sign of Hewitt’s versatility as a coach.

In an update to his social media profile this week, Hewitt is now the offensive quality control/assistant tight ends coach.

Hewitt is one of the longest-tenured members of the coaching and support staff, having joined Rutgers in 2017 under then-head coach Chris Ash. Last season, he was elevated from being the assistant director of recruiting to being a defensive assistant.

From Englewood, N.J., Hewitt was a safety in college at Arkansas where he was Second-Team All-SEC by the Associated Press as a senior.

Regarded highly for his football knowledge but also for his work ethic, Heiwtt is routinely praised by recruits.

On Friday, Nas Jones joined the Rutgers coaching staff, becoming an assistant safeties coach after spending the past year in player development with the Scarlet Knights.

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Jones is a former collegiate safety at Rhode Island.

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Watch: In college, Rutgers football’s new assistant safeties coach was a playmaker

Nas Jones, a new assistant with Rutgers football, was a standout player at Rhode Island.

On Friday, Nas Jones announced that he was taking on a new role with Rutgers football as an assistant safeties coach. Turns out that Jones knows a thing or two about the position.

Jones was a standout defensive back at Rhode Island. He was a bit of a ballhawk who had two career interceptions and 11 passes defended during his four years with the program.

Solid in coverage, Jones also a strong tackler, leading Rhode Island with 78 tackles in 2018, his senior season.

From New Jersey, Jones played at Barringer High School (Newark, N.J. As a senior in 2013, he recorded 56 tackles in 10 games as a defensive back and was named his team’s MVP. He also lined up on offense as a wide receiver.

In addition to football, Jones was also a standout sprinter in high school.

Rutgers Wire unearthed film of Jones from his four seasons at Rhode Island. OK, it wasn’t exactly unearthed…a simple search on YouTube unveiled the highlights relatively easily.

(Of course, his highlights are linked in his Twitter bio but that wasn’t noticed till after the exhausting and thorough 45-second search on YouTube.)

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Jones joined the Rutgers football program last March, working in player development the past year.

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Breaking: Nas Jones is the new assistant safeties coach with Rutgers football

Rutgers football has a new assistant in Nas Jones.

Nas Jones, has a New Jersey state of mind.

A highly regarded member of the support staff, Jones has found a new role within the Rutgers football program, announcing on Friday that he is the new assistant safeties coach. For Rutgers, it adds another energetic young coach who has strong ties to New Jersey.

Jones, who played his high school football at Barringer (Newark, N.J.), was a multi-year starter at Rhode Island who ran like a cheetah. He joined the Rutgers football staff last March in player development and served in that role for a year before being elevated to his current role. He is known as a tireless and unrelenting worker (because sleep is the cousin of death).

He will work alongside Drew Lascari, the safeties coach at Rutgers. Lascari took over the role with Rutgers last spring.

 

It all makes for quite the offseason around Rutgers as the coaching staff has undergone some significant changes. Most of the changes have come on offensive side of the ball with a flurry of new hires:

  • Kirk Ciarrocca is the new offensive coordinator
  • Dave Brock is the new wide receivers coach
  • Pat Flaherty is the new offensive line coach

Then to accomodate these new hires, two exisiting coaches were moved around:

  • Andrew Aurich was moved from running backs coach to tight ends coach
  • Damiere Shaw was moved from wide receivers coach to running backs coach

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