Running Backs Coach

Former Auburn University quarterback and Mobile-area native Dameyune Craig was the first hire made by Joey Jones this spring when he was named to the staff on Feb. 27. Craig, most recently the quarterbacks coach at Tuskegee, will serve as running backs coach for the Jaguars.

Craig, 33, comes to the Jaguar program with coaching and playing experience at every level of football. In addition to two years on the Golden Tiger staff, he spent the 2005 season as assistant special teams coach with the Miami Dolphins under then-head coach Nick Saban. He began his career as an assistant coach at his high school alma mater, Blount High School, then served as a graduate assistant coach at LSU, also under Saban.

A four-year letterwinner for the Tigers from 1994-97, Craig was named Academic All-Southeastern Conference as a senior. He still ranks fifth in the school’s record book for career passing yards (6,026), while also accounting for 30 touchdown passes.

Following his collegiate career, Craig signed as a free agent with the Carolina Panthers and spent his rookie season between the active roster and the practice squad. He saw action in six games over the next three years, 1999-2001, plus appeared with the Scottish Claymores of the NFL Europe in 1999. His final professional season came in 2002 with Indiana in the Arena Football League.