Anthony Ray Lynn is a former American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 running back and current assistant coach for the New York Jets

New York Jets

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Playing career

The Lynn played at Celina High School

Celina Independent School District

Celina Independent School District is a public school district based in Celina, Texas .In addition to Celina, the district serves a portion of Weston...

 and later at Texas Tech

Texas Tech University

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 (1988-91), where he was an All-Southwest Conference running back in 1990. His senior year was cut short by a knee injury, and concerns about the injury left him undrafted. He was a journeyman reserve running back and special teams player during his NFL career, playing for the Denver Broncos

Denver Broncos

The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado. They are currently members of the West Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

 (1993, 1997-99) and San Francisco 49ers

San Francisco 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and...

 (1995-96). He retired in 2000 due to repeated neck stinger injuries. Lynn was part of Denver's back-to-back Super Bowl champion teams (1997-98). In 1997 he had his best personal year as an NFL player.

Coaching career

Upon retiring in 2000, he joined the Denver coaching staff as an offensive assistant and special teams coach (2000-02), before joining the Jacksonville Jaguars

Jacksonville Jaguars

The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

 as the running backs coach (2003-04). He left Jacksonville after being switched to special teams coach following a coaching staff shakeup by head coach Jack Del Rio

Jack Del Rio

Jack Del Rio is an American football coach and former player. Del Rio played both football and baseball for the University of Southern California Trojans, and then spent eleven years playing linebacker in the National Football League . He retired from playing in 1996 and went into coaching,...

 in 2005 and quickly joined the Dallas Cowboys staff as the running backs coach. On January 26th, 2007, with the retirement of Bill Parcells

Bill Parcells

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 as Dallas head coach, Lynn signed on with the Cleveland Browns

Cleveland Browns

The Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

 to fill their RB coach vacancy.

Lynn was named the running back

Running back

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s coach for the New York Jets

New York Jets

The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

 on January 25, 2009 under new head coach Rex Ryan

Rex Ryan

Rex Ryan is an American football head coach for the New York Jets of the National Football League . After serving as an assistant coach for twenty-two years, Ryan attained his first head coaching job in the NFL with the Jets in 2009...

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Trivia

• two children (D'Anton and Danielle).
• Was a victim of a hit-and-run automobile accident, suffering a broken nose and multiple lacerations, during the 2005 Cowboys training camp.
• Is a member of Life Athletes, an abstinence group for teens
• His son D'Anton graduated from Celina High School
  Celina Independent School District
  Celina Independent School District is a public school district based in Celina, Texas .In addition to Celina, the district serves a portion of Weston...
  
   and now plays football for the Penn State Nittany Lions.

External links

• ClevelandBrowns.com official bio