John Shaw is in his first season with the Titans. He was hired in 2024 to fill the newly created coaching role of assistant sports performance - speed training.

Prior to joining the Titans, Shaw spent five years in college coaching. Before a brief stint as the director of speed development at the University of Washington (January 2024 to March 2024), he was the director of speed development for two seasons on the strength and conditioning staff at the University of Arizona (2022-23). He was an assistant strength and conditioning coach for a pair of seasons at the University of Missouri (2020-21) and one campaign at the University of Kansas (2019). At Mizzou, he also served as director of sport science and mental conditioning.

The Mobile, Ala., native began his collegiate playing career as a defensive back at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (2001-04) before transferring to Belhaven University in Jackson, Miss., to finish his career (2005-06). He then took his first steps into coaching at Belhaven as a graduate assistant/cornerbacks coach and assistant strength and conditioning coach. For the next eight years, he coached athletes at the high school level in Alabama and Mississippi, including the final six years as a strength and conditioning coach and defensive backs coach for St. Paul's Episcopal (Mobile, Ala.) High School, where he was part of three AHSAA State Championships.

Shaw earned his Bachelor of Science degree in exercise science from Belhaven University. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS, USAW).

Shaw is married to Britney with four children: John III, Asher, Shiloh and Roman.

JOHN SHAW'S CAREER TIMELINE

2024: Assistant Sports Performance - Speed Training – Tennessee Titans
2024: Director of Speed Development – University of Washington
2022-23: Director of Speed Development – University of Arizona
2020-21: Assistant Strength and Conditioning, Director of Sport Science and Mental Conditioning – University of Missouri
2019: Assistant Strength and Conditioning – University of Kansas
2013-18: Defensive Backs and Strength & Conditioning, St. Paul's Episcopal (Mobile, Ala.) High School
2011-13: Defensive Backs and Strength & Conditioning, Germantown (Madison, MS.) High School
2009-11: Graduate Assistant/Cornerbacks; Assistant Strength & Conditioning – Belhaven University
2007-09: Assistant Sports Performance/Director of Marketing – Titan Athletics (Mobile, Ala.)
2007: Assistant Sports Performance – Encore Performance Training (Mobile, Ala.)