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Jennifer King

A football trailblazer, Jennifer King joined the North Carolina Central University football program in 2025. She serves as an offensive analyst, working primarily with the wide receivers.

King comes to the Eagles after becoming the first Black woman to be a full-time coach in the National Football League (NFL). The journey started when King met Ron Rivera at the NFL Women’s Forum in 2018, and he hired her as a coaching intern with the Carolina Panthers.

In addition, King was an offensive assistant at Dartmouth in 2019. While there, King was one of three recipients of the inaugural Scott Pioli & Family Fund for Women Football Coaches & Scouts grant.

In 2020, she reunited with Rivera as a coaching intern with the Washington Commanders. The following year, King was promoted to assistant running backs coach, becoming the first Black woman in NFL history to be a full-time coach.

In 2022, King was the West team’s running backs coach for the East-West Shrine Bowl.

In 2024, the Chicago Bears hired King as an offensive assistant, where she focused on the running backs.

King was a two-sport athlete at Guilford College, playing both basketball and softball. She graduated in 2006 with a degree in sports management, and she added a master’s degree in sports management from Liberty University in 2016.

After graduating from Guilford, King played in the Women’s Football Alliance (WFA). She was a quarterback and wide receiver for the Carolina Phoenix from 2006-17, before joining the New York Sharks in 2018 as receiver and defensive back, and the D.C. Divas as a safety in 2019.

Her coaching career also includes college basketball; she was an assistant coach at Greensboro College for 10 years, before being named head women’s basketball coach at Johnson & Wales University. In two seasons at Johnson & Wales, King won 37 games and claimed the 2018 USCAA Div. II national championship.

King is a native of Eden, N.C.