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Scott Booker

Safeties

Biography

Scott Booker is in his sixth season with the Titans and in his fourth season as safeties coach. He arrived in Tennessee in 2018 as a defensive assistant following 15 years of college coaching experience. 

In 2022, Booker helped Kevin Byard lead the Titans with four interceptions and 106 tackles. It was Byard's second consecutive season in which he led the squad in interceptions, and it was his third straight campaign (2020-22) leading the defense in tackles—all under Booker's tutelage. Safety Andrew Adams, who did not join the team until Week 3, recorded 11 starts, registered a career-high 60 tackles, and he added an interception for a touchdown. 

In 2021, Booker helped Byard earn first-team All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors. Byard became the franchise's first player to lead the team in tackles (88) and interceptions (five) in the same season since the team began tracking individual tackle statistics in 1974, and his 13 passes defensed led all NFL safeties. Meanwhile, Amani Hooker was a full-time starter for the first time in his career and totaled a career-best 62 tackles.  

In 2020, Byard led the team and set a career high with 111 tackles, while Hooker emerged as a playmaker for the defense in his second season, tying for the team lead with four interceptions. As a unit, the Titans defense ranked seventh in the NFL with 15 interceptions, which was most by the Titans since 2012.  

In 2019, Booker helped Byard and Kenny Vaccaro solidify themselves as one of the NFL's top safety duos. Each safety started all 16 games, a first for the team since 2010. Byard's five interceptions tied for the second-highest total among all NFL safeties, and only four teams had more interceptions from their safeties than the six combined from Byard and Vaccaro during the regular season. In the playoffs, Byard and Vaccaro each notched an interception in a divisional round win at Baltimore.  

As a defensive assistant focused on the safeties in 2018, Booker helped Byard accumulate four interceptions and worked to acclimate Vaccaro to the Titans defense after the veteran was added during training camp. The Titans ranked sixth in the NFL in passing defense (216.9 yards per game), and they ranked eighth in the league with an opponent passer rating of 88.4.  

Prior to joining the Titans, Booker coached safeties and special teams for Nebraska in 2017.

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