2021

Trey Sneed, RB - First

Julius Loughridge, RB - Second

Jalen Banks, a former Quality Control Analyst at Northwestern University, was named an assistant football coach at Fordham University in March of 2022. Banks will be in charge of the Rams’ running backs again in 2023.

Last fall Banks helped running back Trey Sneed become the tenth player in school history to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a season as he earned First Team All-Patriot League honors. Sneed led the Patriot League in rushing yards and rushing yards/game (91.1), ranking 24th in NCAA FCS in rushing yards and 29th in rushing yards/game. Boosted by 940 rushing yards from Julius Loughridge, a Second Team All-League selection, the Fordham offense ranked second in the Patriot League, and 23rd in the NCAA, in rushing yards/game (195.2).
 
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 assisted 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.