Football
- Title:
- Special Teams Graduate Assistant
- Email:
- coachjrut@unc.edu
- Phone:
- 919-962-0294
Jonathan Rutledge joined the Carolina staff as a special teams graduate assistant in 2014.
He worked the previous two seasons as graduate assistant at the University of Memphis working with the Tigers' tight ends and special teams. In 2013, Rutlege worked with Memphis punter Tom Hornsey who won the Ray Guy Award as the nation's best punter.
A native of Madison, Mississippi, Rutledge graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in secondary education from the University of Mississippi in May, 2011.
Prior to graduating from Ole Miss, Rutledge was a student equipment manager for four years and worked specifically with the team's quarterbacks. He was part of back-to-back Cotton Bowl championship teams (2009-10). As an undergraduate, he did his student teaching at Lafayette Middle School in Oxford, Miss., where he also served previously as a volunteer assistant basketball coach.
Following graduating, Rutledge went on to spend a season working in Offensive Quality Control for the Ole Miss football team. During the 2011 season he had specific responsibilities working with the team's quarterbacks coach. At Ole Miss, he was on the same staff with current UNC co-offensive coordinator Gunter Brewer.
