CHRIS HARRIS has been around the NFL block both as an assistant coach and as a player. He comes to Glenn's first Jets staff from Tennessee, where he was the Titans' defensive pass game coordinator and cornerbacks coach the last two seasons. In 2024 the Titans ranked second in the NFL in allowing 177.3 net passing yards/game and 9ninth in yielding 6.37 net passing yards/play. Sixth-year S Amani Hooker led Tennessee this season with a career-high 5 INTs.
Harris began his NFL coaching career with two seasons as defensive quality control coach with Chicago in 2013-14, joined the San Diego Chargers as assistant DBs coach in '16, and became Washington's defensive backs coach in '20.
He was a Bears sixth-round selection in the 2005 draft and became known as a safety with a knack for takeaways. At the end of his second season, he intercepted Indianapolis' Peyton Manning in Super Bowl XLI. He was traded to Carolina in August 2007 and set a Panthers team record with 8 forced fumbles, a total that is tied for the second-most FFs by an NFL defensive back in a season since 1991.
Harris was traded back to Chicago in the 2010 offseason and in his first season back in the Bears' secondary he set career highs with 5 INTs and 7 TAs and ended the season with his only postseason award, second-team All-Pro from The Associated Press. He was acquired on waivers by Detroit in October 2011, and played five games for Jacksonville in 2012 before retiring as a player.
