Emmett Jones serves as Passing Game Coordinator/Wide Receivers for University of Oklahoma's Football program in Norman, Oklahoma. Coaching Notes and Accomplishments • Named Oklahoma’s passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach on Jan. 10, 2023. • Coached a 2023 wide receivers group that helped Oklahoma lead the Big 12 with its 41.7 points (ranked fourth nationally), 507.0 total yards (third) and 324.8 passing yards (sixth) per contest and lead the Big 12 with its 167.5 passing efficiency (sixth). Receiver Drake Stoops finished with 84 catches for 962 yards and 10 touchdowns and was named first-team All-Big 12, while Nic Anderson set an OU freshman record with 10 TD receptions and was a freshman All-American by The Athletic. • Spent the 2022 season at Texas Tech as wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator.
From 2019-21, Jones served as wide receivers coach at Kansas and added the title of passing game coordinator his final two years there. He also served as KU’s interim head coach in spring 2021 until Lance Leipold was hired as head coach. • In 2022, Texas Tech led the Big 12 and ranked 12th nationally in passing offense (302.0 yards per game) and 13th nationally in passing yards (3,926). Eight receivers under his tutelage registered at least 20 receptions and five of those averaged at least 12.0 yards per catch. • In each of Jones’ three seasons at Kansas, the Jayhawks produced a top-11 receiver in the Big 12. In 2019, Andrew Parchment ranked fourth in the league by averaging 69.3 receiving yards per game, becoming the first KU player to rank among the top-five Big 12 receivers in the category since 2009.
