DeMarcus Covington
DeMarcus Covington (born March 30, 1989) is an American football coach who is the current Defensive Line coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). Early years. Covington played collegiately at wide receiver for the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Samford Bulldogs where he registered 62 receptions for 586 yards and two touchdowns from 2007 to 2010. He graduated from Samford in 2011. Coaching career. College. DeMarcus began his coaching career a year after he graduated in 2012 as defensive graduate assistant at the University of Alabama-Birmingham for the Blazers. In  2013 he went to the Southeastern Conference where he spent two seasons as a defensive graduate assistant at Ole Miss. In 2015 Covington coached the defensive line at UT Martin. This was followed by 2016 when he spent the college football season as the co-defensive coordinator and defensive line coach at Eastern Illinois. New England Patriots. Covington joined the organization in and was a coaching assistant for two years before becoming the teams outside linebackers coaching in . In 2020 he was moved to coaching the defensive line. Personal life. Covington and wife, Natasha have two sons, Cassius and Cayman . Covington created Next Level in 2012, a non-profit football camp that serves as an outlet to the youth of his home town of Birmingham, Alabama, for a full day of football-related drills and activities.