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Tony Oden
Passing Game Coord./Cornerbacks
Biography
Tony Oden is in his first season with the Titans as passing game coordinator/cornerbacks coach.
Oden brings 19 years of NFL coaching experience and an additional eight season in the college coaching ranks. He spent the last four seasons (2021-24) with the New York Jets as senior defensive assistant/cornerbacks. In each of the last three seasons, the Jets ranked in the top 5 in defensive yards allowed, including 2024, where they ranked third in total yards allowed and fourth in passing yards allowed. In 2023, he guided CB Sauce Gardner to All-Pro and Defensive Rookie of the Year honors, and the team ranked second in passing defense.
Over his time in the NFL, Oden has worked with a number of Pro Bowl performers including Gardner (NYJ), Xavien Howard (Miami), Darius Slay (Detroit), Darrelle Revis (Tampa Bay) and Roman Harper (New Orleans). Prior to joining the Jets, he spent one year (2020) in San Fransisco as defensive backs/cornerbacks coach and their passing defense ranked fourth in the NFL. He also had stops in Miami (2018-19), Detroit (2014-17), Tampa Bay (2013), Jacksonville (2012), New Orleans (2006-11) and Houston (2004-05). Before starting his coaching career in college, he was a four-year linebacker at Baldwin-Wallace College.