Clayton Lopez (born May 6, 1970) is an
American football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...
coach. He previously worked as the defensive backs coach for the
St. Louis Rams
The St. Louis Rams were a professional American football team of the National Football League (NFL). They played in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1995 through the 2015 season, before moving back to Los Angeles, California, where the team had played ...
and
Oakland Raiders
The Oakland Raiders were a professional American football team based in Oakland, California, from its founding in 1960 to 1981, and again from 1995 to 2019 before Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas, relocating to the Las Vegas metropolitan ...
of the
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a Professional gridiron football, professional American football league in the United States. Composed of 32 teams, it is divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National ...
(NFL). He played defensive back at University of Nevada from 1991 to 1994.
On May 2, 2019, head coach
Jim Zorn
James Arthur Zorn (born May 10, 1953) is an American former professional football player and coach. Zorn was a left-handed quarterback, and is best known as the starting quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks for their first eight seasons. He was ...
announced Lopez would be the defensive coordinator for the
Seattle Dragons
The Seattle Sea Dragons were a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington. The Sea Dragons competed in the second incarnation of the XFL (2020), XFL. The team was founded by Vince McMahon’s Alpha Entertainment as the Seat ...
when the
XFL began play in 2020. He served as the defensive coordinator until the league folded Midway through its first season.
References
External links
Raiders profile
1970 births
Living people
Nevada Wolf Pack football coaches
Oakland Raiders coaches
Seattle Seahawks coaches
Detroit Lions coaches
Seattle Dragons coaches
St. Louis Rams coaches
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