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Jeremiah Covington enters his third year serving as the Ohio football program's Assistant Athletics Director for Football Operations in 2022.
Covington has spent the last two years serving as Operations/Recruiting Assistant for the Bobcats, earning two bowl rings as Ohio won the DXL Frisco Bowl and the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. He replaces Chris Rodgers, who had served in the Assistant AD for Football Operations role for the past six seasons.
In his new role, Covington will monitor the program's budget, plan and organize team travel, collaborate with NFL scouts, facilitate the Ohio Football Alumni Golf Outing and direct the high school & youth camps.
Covington is a 2011 graduate of Wingate University in North Carolina, where he was a member of the football team, playing on the defensive line and special teams for the Bulldogs. Prior to arriving in Athens, Covington served as the defensive coordinator assistant/recruiting assistant at Jireh Prep School in Matthews, N.C., then returned to Wingate in 2013, where he worked as the assistant defensive backs coach and handled recruiting and operations responsibilities before being promoted to director of football operations. Covington's experience also includes working as a scouting combine assistant for the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts and Winnipeg Blue Bombers and serving as the head coach at East Union Middle School in Marshville, N.C.
