Quick Facts
Biography
Eric Sanders is an American football coach who is the defensive quality control coach for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). Sanders was on the Oakland Raiders coaching staff when Hue Jackson was the head coach. He worked as a student with the UC Davis football program before graduating in 2005 with a degree in psychology with a biological emphasis.
He has experience coaching at the college level with UC Davis, Utah State, and Stanford. He spent five years in the NFL with the Oakland Raiders, then returned to the college ranks with Stanford before joining the Browns in 2016.
In 2005, he traveled to the Far East for coaches clinics with the American Football in China Exchange Association.
Sanders is from San Francisco, California.
Coaching tree
NFL head coaches under whom Eric Sanders has served:
- Hue Jackson, Cleveland Browns (2016)
- Tony Sparano, Oakland Raiders (2014)
- Dennis Allen, Oakland Raiders (2012–13)
- Hue Jackson, Oakland Raiders (2011)
- Tom Cable, Oakland Raiders (2010)