Josina Anderson reports the Cowboys completed an interview with Vikings pass game coordinator and defensive backs coach Daronte Jones for their defensive coordinator job.
Here’s an updated list of candidates:
- Vikings defensive pass game coordinator Daronte Jones
- Denver assistant HC/pass game coordinator Jim Leonhard
- Browns safeties coach Ephraim Banda
The Jets also requested an interview with Jones for their DC position. Jones drew interest from the Bears, Jaguars, and Saints as a coordinator last year.
Jones, 46, started as a graduate assistant at Lenoir-Rhyne in 2001 before working at Nicholls State and Bowie State.
He later was a graduate assistant at UCLA in 2010 before transitioning to the CFL with the Montreal Alouettes as a DB coach in 2011. From there he held similar roles with Hawaii and Wisconsin before jumping to the NFL with the Dolphins as an assistant DB coach in 2016.
In 2018, Jones was the CB coach for the Bengals before being hired as the DB coach by the Vikings in 2020. He left for LSU in 2021 where he had his first stint as a defensive coordinator before returning to the Vikings in his old capacity the following season where he has remained since.
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