EDMONTON — Chris Jones is easing his workload. The Edmonton Elks announced Monday that Jason Shivers will be the team’s assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and linebackers coach this season.
The Edmonton Elks announced Monday that Jason Shivers will be the team’s assistant head coach, defensive coordinator and linebackers coach this season. This takes the defensive coordinator job away from Jones, who remains as the team’s head coach and general manager.
"But I am going to have my input with it, but it’s going to be a lot of fun because I’m working with a guy that I completely trust and know. And I know he’s going to give everything he’s got, every single day.”This will be Shivers’s second stint on Edmonton’s sidelines. He was the team’s defensive backs coach from 2014-2015. Jones was in his first stint coaching the Elks when the team won the Grey Cup in 2015 with Shivers on staff.
When Jones left Edmonton ahead of the 2016 season to take over the Saskatchewan Roughriders coaching and managing duties, Shivers went with him. Shivers was the defensive backs coach until 2019, when he was promoted to defensive coordinator.“Jason, he’s been doing this for a minute,” said Jones. “He’s had a lot of success in Saskatchewan. We’ve been together for 100 years, it seems like. He knows exactly what I am looking for and we won’t stray too far from our roots. We are who we are.
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