The Washington Football team is going to name Jennifer King as a fulltime offensive assistant coach. King will become the first full-time African-American female coach in NFL history.
Important development in Washington: Jennifer King is going to become a full-time offensive assistant for the WFT, source said. She spent the last year as a coaching intern.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) January 22, 2021
King spent time with the Carolina Panthers before becoming a coaching intern with the WFT for the 2020 season. She worked with running backs coach Randy Jordan with Washington.
King worked as an intern for two years under current WFT coach Ron Rivera when he was in Carolina, in 2018 and ’19. She also was an assistant receivers coach for the Arizona Hotshots of the Alliance of American Football.
She played for three professional women’s football teams from 2006-19.
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