Report: Tennessee Volunteers RB Coach Jerry Mack Will Join Jaguars

The Jaguars now have Bernie Parmalee’s replacement.

The team for Doug Pederson’s 2024 is assembling.

The Jaguars plan to appoint Jerry Mack, the coach of the Tennessee Volunteers running backs, to the same role, per a report from Matt Zenitz of 247Sport.

A few days prior, rumors had surfaced about Mack, who is now officially expected to succeed former running backs coach Bernie Parmalee.

Jerry Mack of the University of Tennessee will be the new running backs coach for the Jacksonville #Jaguars, according to sources who spoke to @247sports.

helped Tennessee finish first in rushing the previous year. was formerly North’s head coach and Rice’s offensive coordinator.

In terms of rushing yards per game, the Volunteers rose from No. 84 to No. 11 in Mack’s first season at Tennessee. With forty running touchdowns in 2022, The Volunteers tied a school record and ranked third nationally. The only other SEC team with multiple running backs who scored 10 or more touchdowns on the ground in a single season was Tennessee.

Mack spent three seasons as Rice’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach before joining Tennessee. Prior to that, he spent four seasons as the head coach of North Carolina Central, where he finished with a 31-15 record.

Previously, Mack worked as a passing game coordinator and receivers coach at Central Arkansas from 2008 to 2009, a wide receivers and tight ends coach at Jackson State from 2006 to 2007, a graduate assistant at Delta State from 2004 to 2005, a wide receivers coach at South Alabama for two seasons, a receivers coach at Memphis in 2011, an offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Arkansas-Pine Bluff in 2020.

Mack has also taken part in five NFL internships with the Buffalo Bills (2008), Miami Dolphins (2019), Houston Texans (2018), and New York Jets (2009, 2010).

Mack will now be in charge of a group that includes Tank Bigsby, a 2023 third-round choice, and Travis Etienne, who is coming off back-to-back 1,000-yard rushing seasons.