Jackson enters his fourth season with the Colts and his third as defensive quality control coach. He served as one of two inaugural Tony Dungy Diversity Coaching Fellows for the 2022 season. Jackson came to Indianapolis with seven years of collegiate coaching experience.
In 2024, the Colts ranked tied for seventh in the NFL in takeaways (25) and also finished tied for first in red zone takeaways (six). Indianapolis registered 17 forced fumbles, which ranked tied for third in the NFL. Jackson assisted the defensive backs throughout the season and led safety Nick Cross to a career year. Cross started all 17 games and registered career highs in tackles (145), solo tackles (86), tackles for loss (6.0), passes defensed (five), interceptions (three) and forced fumbles (one). He also guided Samuel Womack III, who the team claimed off waivers after training camp, to single-season career highs in tackles (36), solo tackles (26), passes defensed (nine) and interceptions (two).
Following the 2024 season, Jackson served as a defensive backs coach for the American Team at the 2025 Senior Bowl.
Indianapolis ranked fifth in the NFL in tackles for loss (94.0) and sacks (51.0), while finishing tied for fifth in forced fumbles (17.0) in 2023. The Colts also ranked fourth in opponent negative play yards (-512). The team recorded 14 consecutive games with a takeaway to open the season, which was the longest streak in the NFL in 2023. Jackson worked with the defensive backs group, including safety Julian Blackmon, who had a career year in which he set single-season career highs in almost every defensive category, including tackles (88), solo tackles (65), tackles for loss (5.0), passes defensed (eight), interceptions (four) and fumble recoveries (two).
In 2022, the Colts finished the season in the top 10 in the league in sacks (44 – tied-10th), tackles for loss (91 – fifth), forced fumbles (13 – tied-eighth), fumble recoveries (11 – tied-fourth), opponent negative plays (31 – fifth), third down percentage (37.95 – 10th) and opponent three-and-out percentage (22.3 – eighth). The unit's 44 sacks were the most in franchise history since 2005 (46).
Prior to Indianapolis, Jackson was a graduate assistant working with the defensive backs at Oregon after serving in the same role at Auburn in 2021.
He spent two years at Illinois as a defensive analyst (2020) and graduate assistant working with the defensive backs (2019). Jackson helped Illinois get a bid to the 2019 Redbox Bowl, which was the school's first bowl in five years.
He coached four seasons at his alma mater, Louisiana, as a defensive analyst (2018) and defensive student assistant (2015-17). Jackson was part of a coaching staff that led the Ragin' Cajuns to postseason play in 2016 and 2018.
He earned his master's of kinesiology in sport management from LSU in 2020 after earning his bachelor's of kinesiology in sport management from Louisiana in 2018.
2015-2017 | Lafayette | Defensive Student Assistant
2018 | Lafayette | Defensive Analyst
2019 | Illinois | Graduate Assistant
2020 | Illinois | Defensive Analyst
2021 | Auburn | Graduate Assistant
2022 | Oregon | Graduate Assistant
2022 | Indianapolis Colts | Tony Dungy Diversity Coaching Fellow
2023-2025 | Indianapolis Colts | Defensive Quality Control
