Jay Graham

Graham returned to his alma mater for the 2005 season as a Graduate Assistant before moving on to the UT-Chattanooga where he spent the 2006 season as their Running Backs coach. He moved again the next off season, this time to UT-Martin where he was the RB coach and Recruiting Coordinator. He changed locations again prior to the 2008 season when he became the RB coach for the Miami RedHawks. For the 2009 season he accepted a position with the South Carolina Gamecocks as the RB coach. After three seasons at South Carolina, he was named the new RB coach for the Volunteers, again returning to his alma mater. In February 2013, he left Tennessee to accept a similar position with the Florida State Seminoles.^[2][3] After the 2019 season he joined head coach Jeremy Pruitt and became the running backs coach at University of Tennessee.

Graham was hired as the special teams coordinator and tight ends coach at Alabama in 2021.^[4]

On March 24, 2021, Graham resigned and left Alabama after only two months with the program ^[5]

Following his resignation at Alabama, Graham was hired as special teams and offensive line quality control coach at East Tennessee State in 2021.^[6] He rejoined East Tennessee State in 2024.^[7] He left to become the head coach at Centennial High School in Franklin, Tennessee in 2025.^[8]

In October of 2025, Graham was placed under arrest during a prostitution sting for patronizing prostitution with a minor as well as solicitation of a minor for aggravated statutory rape. After ads were posted on adult escort websites, Graham engaged with the ads and began communication with an officer posing as a 16-year-old. After booking a hotel room and paying the officer $120, Graham was immediately taken into custody.^[9]