Hall of Fame
Johnny Cox, a four-year starter on the football team from 1990-93, earned first team Associated Press Little All-America honors as a wide receiver and return specialist 1992 and 1993.
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference football coaches chose him as the league's Player of the Year as a senior. Cox was a two-time All-RMAC selection, and was twice a regional finalist for the Harlon Hill Trophy — NCAA Division II's equivalent to the Heisman Trophy.
Cox, who led the nation in all-purpose yards in 1992, owned countless school, conference and national records for receiving, returns, all-purpose yards and scoring.
Since graduating from Fort Lewis in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in exercise science, Cox has risen through the collegiate and professional coaching ranks.
In 2010, Cox completed his first season as the Jacksonville Jaguars' wide receivers coach and his third year on the staff. He served as quality control/offense coach the previous two seasons. Cox joined the Jaguars coaching staff in 2009 after spending the 2008 season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as defensive quality control coach.
Previously Cox coached for 14 years at the college and high school levels. He served as wide receivers coach and special teams coordinator at Holy Cross in 2007 after spending four seasons (2003-06) as head coach at Putnam High School in Milwaukie, Ore., where he led the school to its first winning record in 20 years in 2006.
Cox also spent three seasons (2000-02) as wide receivers coach at North Dakota State University. In the 2002 season he helped lead the Bison to the semifinals of the NCAA Division II playoffs. In the summer of 2002, Cox served a minority coaching internship under head coach Marty Schottenheimer with the San Diego Chargers, where he worked with the wide receivers.
In 1999 Cox served as offensive coordinator at Fort Lewis College, his alma mater. He also spent time as a graduate assistant at the University of Texas (1997-98) and North Dakota State (1996). He began his coaching career at Fort Lewis as secondary coach in 1994 before serving the 1995 season as assistant coach at Overland High School in Aurora, Colo.
He received his master’s degree from the University of Texas in 2000.
He and his wife Deb and daughter Reisa live in Jacksonville.
