Diamond Weaver, an assistant football coach at UAlbany in 2025, was named an assistant football coach at Fordham in January of 2026. He will be leading the Fordham cornerbacks in 2026.
 
Weaver coached the safety and nickel positions for the Great Danes in 2025, emphasizing leverage, eye discipline, and communication. He assisted the defensive coordinator in weekly opponent breakdown, coverage adjustments, and game-plan strategy and supported the installation of defensive playbook terminology, concepts, and weekly personnel packages.

Prior to joining the Great Danes’ staff, Weaver served many different roles. He was the defensive Backs/KR coach at Rochester Community and Technical College in 2013, running backs/cornerbacks coach at Rhode Island (2014-15), wide receivers coach at Pace (2016), defensive backs coach with the Green Bay Blizzard (IFL) (2017), cornerbacks coach at Maine (2018), cornerbacks coach at Stony Brook (2019-2023) and the defensive backs coach at Edinboro (2024).
 
While at Maine in 2018, he led the cornerback unit for a defense that ranked #1 in CAA total defense and assisted in leading a secondary ranked #1 in CAA pass efficiency defense and a unit that was Top-6 nationally in interceptions.

As a player, Weaver began his collegiate career at Santa Rosa Junior College, earning all-conference marks as a defensive back while being honored as the school's Scholar-Athlete of the Year. After his time at Santa Rosa, he transferred to Akron.
 
Weaver went on to play professionally in the NFL, the Canadian Football League (CFL), the Arena Football League (AFL) and the IFL.

Weaver graduated from the University of Akron with a degree in Communications.