page_title: Daron Roberts
section_title: Coaching career
hierarchical_section_title: Daron Roberts / Coaching career
caption_attribution_description: English: On Tuesday, September 18, 2018, the LBJ Presidential Library partnered with the University of Texas at Austin's Center for Sports Leadership &amp; Innovation and UT’s Center for Sports Communication &amp; Media for an evening of conversation about equality in sports. The event featured U.S. Olympic female fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, a bronze medal winner; Nate Boyer, a former UT football player, Green Beret, and NFL player; and Daron K. Roberts, founding director of the Center for Sports Leadership &amp; Innovation. The event was tied to the LBJ Library’s special exhibition, Get in the Game: The Fight for Equality in American Sports, on view through Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. The conversation was moderated by Mark K. Updegrove, president, and CEO of the LBJ Foundation.
context_page_description: Daron K. Roberts is a Harvard Law grad turned NFL coach. Currently, he is a university lecturer and founding director of the Center for Sports Leadership & Innovation at the University of Texas. He also serves as a lecturer in the Plan II Honors program where he teaches courses on sports leadership and innovation. His writings have appeared in the Houston Chronicle and Huffington Post as well as Forbes and Fortune. He has served as a guest analyst for ESPN's Longhorn Network. Previously, Roberts worked as a defensive quality control assistant for the Cleveland Browns.
  He has been featured in ESPN the Magazine, Businessweek and Sports Illustrated.
  Previously, Roberts was a corners coach with West Virginia University and was an assistant secondary coach with the Detroit Lions. He served as the defensive quality control assistant for the Kansas City Chiefs after graduating from Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he was named one of the school's 75 Most Fascinating Alumni. He is a member of the inaugural class of the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program, a partnership between Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
context_section_description: Impressed by his enthusiasm and people skills, Chief's coach Herman Edwards allowed Roberts to volunteer for the 2007 season before hiring him as a defensive quality control assistant in 2008.  He assisted the defensive backs coach with off the field matters  while in Kansas City. In 2009, Roberts left the Chiefs to work as an assistant to the secondary coach with the Detroit Lions; his duties included editing film and administrative tasks. Although his NFL work did not involve coaching, he learned from the coaches he assisted and became more determined to become part of the coaching fraternity. In 2011, Roberts realized his dream, leaving his position with the Detroit Lions to become a special teams and inside receivers coach at West Virginia University.  For the 2012 season, Roberts was  the Mountaineers' cornerbacks coach.
caption: Roberts at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2018.
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