Johnny Cox enters his first season as the North Carolina A&T wide receivers coach at North Carolina A&T.  

He brings plenty of NFL experience to the program after coaching with the Jacksonville Jaguars for three seasons starting in 2009. Before landing in Jacksonville, he was an assistant for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

During his first two seasons at Jacksonville, he was the quality control/offense coach. In 2011, he served as wide receivers coach. In Tampa Bay starting in 2008, Cox served as the quality control/defense coach.  With the Buccaneers, he assisted the defensive backs and linebackers coach and was responsible for film breakdowns and scouting reports.

Prior to working in the NFL, Cox spent 14 years coaching at the college and high school levels.

He served as the special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach at the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.   He was the head football coach for four years at Rex Putnam High School in Milwaukie, Ore.  He led the school to its first winning record in 20 years in 2006.

From 2000-2003, Cox was the wide receivers coach at North Dakota State University.  In addition to his on-field coaching duties, Cox recruited in Wisconsin and Minnesota, organized 7-on-7 summer camp tournaments and served as the staff liaison to the Diversity Program.  He also served as the kickoff return coach for a season at North Dakota State. He helped lead the Bison to the semifinals of the NCAA Division II playoffs in 2002.  In the summer of 2002, Cox worked in a minority coaching internship position under then San Diego Chargers head coach Marty Schottenheimer. 

He spent a season as the offensive coordinator at Fort Lewis College, serving as the interim head coach for three months.  As the interim head coach, he was instrumental in signing the 2000 recruiting class. During the 1999 season, he coached quarterbacks and receivers and served as the director of academics and study hall.  He also was responsible for recruiting in the Denver Metropolitan area.

He served as an assistant graduate coach at the University of Texas for two seasons before doing the same at North Dakota State University in 1996. Cox was an assistant coach at Overland High School in Aurora, Colo., for the 1995-96 school year, coaching wide receivers and defensive backs, and serving as the junior varsity head coach.  He began his coaching career in 1994 as the defensive backs coach at his alma mater, Fort Lewis College.

Cox was a two-time first-team Division II All-America wide receiver at Fort Lewis College from 1990-93 and was named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Player of the Year in 1993.  He also earned Fort Lewis College Male Athlete of the Year honors in 1993 and was a Snow Bowl Division II All Star Participant in 1993.  He was a finalist for the 1993 Exercise Science Student of the Year, and he was also a Fort Lewis College Student Senator for the 92-93 school year. 

Cox competed professionally with the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League in 1995 and the NFL's Green Bay Packers in 1994. 

Cox holds a bachelor's degree in exercise science from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo., and a master's degree in education administration from the University of Texas.  He is a member of the American Football Coaches Association.