Chris Gordon - Defensive Assistant - Football Support Staff

Chris Gordon

Title:
Defensive Assistant
Email:
football@msu.edu
Phone:
355-1647

Chris Gordon enters his third year on the Spartan staff, his first as an assistant defensive backs coach. He spent the previous two seasons (2023-24) as a defensive assistant.

Gordon was a defensive graduate assistant at Idaho for the 2022 season and helped the Vandals reach the FCS playoffs for the first time in 27 years as the defense finished second in the Big Sky and 18th nationally in pass defense.

During the 2021 season, Gordon was a special teams quality control coach at South Dakota, game planning for all six units on special teams. Thanks in part to strong special teams play, the Coyotes earned a berth in the FCS playoffs. Gordon helped manage a special teams unit that featured an all-conference punter and long snapper and finished No. 1 in the nation in kickoff return average and No. 10 in net punting.

Gordon was a defensive graduate assistant coaching cornerbacks at Illinois Wesleyan in 2020 and coached the Titans during the shortened 2021 spring season.

He previously worked with Spartan defensive coordinator Joe Rossi at Minnesota during the 2019 season as a defensive quality control intern, assisting the defensive staff in all phases of game planning. Featuring a top-10 defense, the Gophers won a school-record 11 games and beat Auburn in the Outback Bowl while finishing No. 10 in the AP Poll.

Gordon was a four-year football letterwinner at Capital University from 2015-18 and graduated with a bachelor of arts in communication and a minor in coaching in 2019. He earned his master of science degree in adult organizational learning and leadership from Idaho in 2022.