| New England Patriots | |
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| Position: | Defensive line coach |
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| Born: | March 30, 1989 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Career information | |
| High school: | John Carroll Catholic |
| College: | Samford |
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DeMarcus Covington (born March 30, 1989) is an American football coach who is the defensive line coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL).[1]
Covington played collegiately at wide receiver for the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Samford Bulldogs where he registered 62 receptions for 586 yards and two touchdowns from 2007 to 2010. He graduated from Samford in 2011.[2][3]
DeMarcus began his coaching career a year after he graduated in 2012 as defensive graduate assistant at the University of Alabama-Birmingham for the Blazers. In 2013 he went to the Southeastern Conference where he spent two seasons as a defensive graduate assistant at Ole Miss. In 2015 Covington coached the defensive line at UT Martin.[4] This was followed by 2016 when he spent the college football season as the co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach at Eastern Illinois.[1][2]
Covington joined the organization in 2017 and was a coaching assistant for two years before becoming the teams outside linebackers coaching in 2019.[1] He won his first Super Bowl title when the Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII.[5] In 2020 he was moved to coaching the defensive line.[6]
Covington and wife, Natasha have two sons, Cassius and Cayman.[1] Covington created Next Level in 2012, a non-profit football camp that serves as an outlet to the youth of his home town of Birmingham, Alabama, for a full day of football-related drills and activities.[1]