Baylor Expected to Hire Jeremy Modkins to Fill Vacant Cornerbacks Coach Position

Baylor is expected to hire Rice cornerbacks coach Jeremy Modkins for its vacant cornerbacks coaching position, SicEm365 has learned.

Modkins has spent the past 12 years coaching defensive backs, primarily at his alma mater, TCU, where he played from 2001–05. He began his coaching career with the Horned Frogs as a defensive analyst from 2014–17 before moving on to coach cornerbacks from 2018–21, helping develop Jeff Gladney and Tre’Vius Hodges-Tomlinson into All–Big 12 performers.

After longtime TCU head coach Gary Patterson was fired, Modkins left Fort Worth and spent the 2022 season as a defensive analyst in the NFL with the Minnesota Vikings before coming back to the college game to be Rice’s cornerbacks coach shortly after.

Modkins arrives in Waco as the replacement for Paul Gonzales, who spent just one season at Baylor, making him the Bears’ third cornerbacks coach in as many years. Gonzales accepted a job at USC, where he will work under his mentor, Patterson, the Trojans’ new defensive coordinator.

The Marlin, Texas, native played collegiately at TCU, where he started 35 games at defensive back and helped the Horned Frogs to two conference championships. As a senior, Modkins totaled 67 tackles and three interceptions, earning Second-Team All-Mountain West Conference and team Defensive MVP honors.

After going undrafted in the 2006 NFL Draft, Modkins had stints on the rosters of the Cleveland Browns and Green Bay Packers before returning to Fort Worth to be a graduate assistant. Modkins went into private business before returning to coaching in 2014.