Jitter Fields

He was selected by the New Orleans Saints in the fifth round of the 1984 NFL draft.^[9] He played for them in 1984, appearing in 13 games and returning 27 punts and 13 kick offs. He had a punt return for 61 yards, which was the 6th longest one that season and the Saints team record at the time.^[10] He was cut by the Saints at the end of the 1985 training camp.^[11]

After being cut by the Saints, he finished the season in the CFL with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, where he had 423 yards receiving and 104 return yards in 5 games.

He was signed by the Indianapolis Colts in September of the 1987 season to play as a replacement player during the 1987 NFL player's strike. He played one game with the Colts, was cut and quickly signed by the Kansas City Chiefs. During his first game with the Chiefs, during the last weekend of the strike, he had a career-high 85-yard punt return for a TD which was the 3rd longest punt return in the NFL that year. In the same game he tied the Chiefs record for most punt return yards in a game with 123 yards.^[12] He played in one game after the end of the strike and was released. But the Chiefs resigned him in December and during the final 3 games of the season he returned 6 punts. He was cut at the end of training camp in 1988.

Fields then spent two years playing semi-pro football in the Minor Football League (MFL) where he was also a defensive coordinator for the Oklahoma City Twisters.

In 1991 and 1992 he played in the Arena Football League. In 1991 he helped the Detroit Drive to get to ArenaBowl V and the next year he helped the Dallas Texans win the Western Division Championship.

Fields went into coaching and education after ending his pro football career.

In 1991–92, he was the defensive coordinator of the Oklahoma City Twisters in the Minor Professional Football League.

From 1992 to 2012, he taught school in Detroit and coached Track and Field .

He was the head coach of the Michigan Coyotes in the Stars Football League in 2012.^[13] The team went 0–2 and folded after the season.

He was then defensive backfield coach and special teams coordinator and an education professor at Kentucky Christian University for 2013–2014, before returning to Detroit as a youth football coach and educator. In 2016, he earned a master's degree in coaching education from Ohio University.

He went into real estate and continued to coach track, this time at the University Liggett School.

He currently teaches at Michigan Islamic Institute as a Social Studies teacher.