Jeff Jones joined the Auburn football staff in December 2025. He currently serves as the Director of Player Development.

In his role, Jones oversees the program’s development and growth in community and campus engagement, leadership development, and off-the-field skill sets necessary for success in life after the student-athletes’ time at Auburn.

Jones comes to Auburn after holding the same role for the last three seasons under head coach Alex Golesh at South Florida.

Prior to his experience at USF, Jones enjoyed a 29-year career in elementary and high school administration and coaching – 15 years as a teacher and 14 years as an administrator.

Among his many accomplishments as an administrator, Jones built a unique care/regulation process and network for students that was implemented across the district, served as an instructional leader for a large number of teachers and educational aides at each stop and oversaw course schedules, discipline and attendance for as many as 2,500 students. He also served on numerous curriculum, planning, standards, grants, and negotiating committees during his tenure.

Jones has 15 seasons of experience coaching football at the high school level, including serving as the head coach at Westland High School (2005-2007), where he was named the 2006 Ohio Division I State Coach of the Year, and Mount Gilead (2002). He was also the offensive coordinator at Dublin Scioto High School (2000-2002), where he coached Golesh, and Hilliard Davidson High School (1999).

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Jones earned his bachelor’s degree in life sciences at Otterbein (OH) University in 1991. He went on to earn a master’s degree in teaching from Otterbein in 1994 and completed continuing education coursework at The Ohio State University. He earned an administrative licensure from Ashland University in 2006, and he completed a superintendent licensure at Ashland from 2012-13.

Jones and his wife, Christy, have a son, Jordan, and a daughter, Aly.