ALONSO ESCALANTE comes to the Jets after he was hired as Tenafly (NJ) High School's coach in April 2023 after eight seasons in the NFL, most recently with the Panthers in 2021 as an assistant running backs coach.

ALONSO ESCALANTE comes to the Jets after he was hired as Tenafly (NJ) High School's coach in April 2023 after eight seasons in the NFL, most recently with the Panthers in 2021 as an assistant running backs coach.

He started as a coach with the Raiders in 2011 as a defensive coaching intern before he held positions with the Buccaneers (2012-13), the Giants (2016-17), the Cardinals (2018) and the Browns (2019). The Glen Rock, NJ, native attended Springfield College in Massachusetts to wrestle and play football, but a back injury prevented him from playing. He broke into the NFL via the Bill Walsh Minority Coaching Candidate Fellowship.