Former Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator and assistant coach Hue Jackson, who just completed his first season as Tennessee State's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, is expected to be named the Grambling State Tigers' new head coach, according to multiple reports Wednesday night.
Jackson has experience as a National Football League head coach but not at the college level.
Grambling State fired Broderick Fobbs last month after eight seasons as head coach. The Tigers finished the 2021 season 3-7 overall, 2-5 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
Jackson spent part of the 2018 season as a special assistant to then-head coach Marvin Lewis with the Bengals and was considered a candidate to replace Lewis as the Bengals' head coach before they hired Zac Taylor.
Jackson was the Bengals' wide receivers coach from 2004 to 2006. He returned to Cincinnati as an assistant when the Oakland Raiders fired him after one season (2011) as their head coach. He was a Bengals assistant and offensive coordinator before the Cleveland Browns hired him as their head coach in 2016.
Jackson said in a March radio interview with "The Really Big Show" on ESPN 850 that "there's no doubt" he was "lied to by ownership and leadership" of the Browns while he was their head coach, adding that he received a contract extension in the middle of an 0-16 season in 2017 that wasn't announced by the team.
Jackson has said he's writing a book about his time with Cleveland.
Jackson said in Aug. 2019 that he became depressed after struggling to a 3-36-1 record as Cleveland's head coach and wasn't sure what would have happened had Lewis not reached out to him.
Jackson interviewed with the Pittsburgh Steelers in January about their offensive-coordinator vacancy, according to multiple reports, after dismissing Randy Fichtner. Quarterbacks coach Matt Canada was promoted to the position.
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