Kynjee’ Cotton serves as Defensive Run Game Coordinator/Defensive Line for University of Arkansas's Football program in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Cotton comes to Arkansas after spending the 2024 and 2025 seasons with the Miami Dolphins as the assistant defensive line coach. His two seasons in the NFL came after more than a decade of coaching in the collegiate ranks.
His work with the 2024 Dolphins helped the team produce a top-five defense, ranking fourth in total defense allowing 314.4 yards per game. Cotton helped defensive tackles Calais Campbell and Zach Sieler produce at a high level with Sieler leading the team with 10.0 sacks and 13.0 tackles for loss. Campbell recorded 12 tackles for loss, second on the squad. Cotton brings SEC experience, having spent the 2023 season at LSU as a senior defensive analyst and a year as a strength and conditioning assistant at Alabama early in his career (2013).
