Booker comes to One Bills Drive having spent the previous four seasons coaching safeties for the Tennessee Titans
The Buffalo Bills announced Wednesday, February 14, that the they’ve hired Scott Booker as the team’s nickel coach/senior defensive assistant. Booker comes to the Bills via the Tennessee Titans, with whom he spent six seasons (2018-2023) — and the last four as safeties coach for the Titans’ defense.
As noted in the Buffalo Bills’ official news release detailing the addition of Scott Booker to the coaching staff:
“Booker helped coach safety Kevin Byard to 20 interceptions and 46 passes defensed during the six seasons he was with Tennessee. Byard also earned first-team All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors during the 2021 season.”
We’ve named Scott Booker our nickel coach/senior defensive assistant.#GoBills | #BillsMafia pic.twitter.com/f036wSWvpq
— Buffalo Bills (@BuffaloBills) February 14, 2024
Prior to joining the Titans in 2018 as a defensive assistant, Booker coached in various capacities at the college level for 15 years. Booker’s coaching career began with him as a graduate assistant for Kent State’s football program (2003-2004), which led to his promotion to defensive backs coach with the Golden Flashes (2005-2008). In 2009, Booker landed with Western Kentucky as the Hilltoppers’ secondary coach.
Scott Booker would then go on to spend the next seven years with Notre Dame’s football program. From 2010-2011, Booker was an offensive intern with Notre Dame. Following that, Booker was named tight ends coach/special teams coordinator (2012-2016). In 2017, Booker headed for Nebraska, accepting the role of safeties coach/special teams coordinator with the Cornhuskers.
As a former college football defensive back, Booker played under then head coach Dean Pees at Kent State. Booker was a four-year letter winner with the Golden Flashes (1999-2002), and in 2001 he was named to the MAC all-academic team. A Native of Pittsburgh, PA, Scott Booker earned his bachelor’s in business administration in 2003, and his master’s in sports studies in 2006 (both from Kent State).
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