Bronx, N.Y. – Jalen Banks, a former Quality Control Analyst at Northwestern University, has been named an assistant football coach at Fordham University it was announced today by head football coach Joe Conlin. Banks will be in charge of the Rams' running backs.
 
Banks joins the Fordham staff after serving as the Offensive Quality Control Analyst at Northwestern University in 2021. He was responsible for identifying coverages and pressure on game day as well as charting and marking up game day down & distance tendencies and the play list for the Offensive Coordinator. Banks also offered input on drill selection & the RVA script prepared projects that serve as running studies for the development of the Wildcats players.
 
Prior to his stint as the Offensive Quality Control Analyst, Banks served as the Wide Receiver Graduate Assistant Coach at Northwestern in 2020. He in navigating/generating practice plans, faces, scripts, and the game plan to get started on scout cards and pass drawings, managed, and created pass game drawings for installs and studies year round. Banks also delivered weekly personnel reports on opposing team secondary by film study, an annotated depth chart, and quickie stats and signaled on game day to either the quarterbacks or wide receivers.
 
Banks started his time on the Northwestern staff in June of 2019 when he served as an On‐Campus Football Recruiting Intern until February of 2020. He assigned defensive recruiting projects to help develop a model for Northwestern's defensive back recruiting strategy and assisted in executing week-to-week communication plan for targeted recruits. Banks also gave facility tours, promoted Northwestern Football Program to recruits, and hosted top recruits and parents on game days.
 
In the spring of 2020, Banks served as a Defensive Back Graduate Assistant at Austin Peay State University where he edited and organized the playbook for spring ball utilizing Visio. He also created cutups, teach tapes on XOS while also creating the DB progression sheets for each install, and assisted in recruiting evaluations/communications.
 
Banks started his coaching career as a coach at Thornton Township High School in South Holland, Illinois.
 
A 2017 graduate of Vanderbilt University, Banks received a Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies with a minor in Managerial Studies-Corporate Strategy. He was a four-year member of the Commodore football squad and was a 2015 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll selection.