Cordae Hankton - Graduate Assistant/Defense - Football Support Staff

Cordae Hankton

Title:
Graduate Assistant/Defense
Email:
football@msu.edu
Phone:
355-1647

Cordae Hankton is in his second year at Michigan State as a defensive graduate assistant.

Hankton joined MSU in 2020 from Colorado, where he spent one year as an offensive graduate assistant in 2019.

Hankton arrived at CU from the high school ranks, having served as the defensive coordinator for John Ehret High School in Marrero, Louisiana, for the 2018 season. He previously was an assistant for six seasons (2012-17) at his alma mater, Archbishop Rummel High School in New Orleans, where he coached the linebackers. Rummel won back-to-back state championships in 2015 and 2016, reaching as high as the No. 13 team in the nation in 2015 as ranked by MaxPreps.

He played defensive back (safety) at Jackson State, earning two letters for the 2006 and 2007 seasons.

After his playing days at JSU, he followed in the footsteps of his parents, who were both police officers, working on the New Orleans police force with them for five years (2009-13); one of the few, if not only, father-mother-son trio working on a police force simultaneously in the nation. After he left the police force, he returned to school in New Orleans, graduating from Southern University, earning his degree in social work.

He was born on Sept. 6, 1988, in New Orleans and graduated from Archbishop Rummel, where he lettered in football and basketball. His older brother, Cortez, is the pass game coordinator/receivers coach at Georgia.