Chris Partridge


Chris Partridge is an American football coach and former player who is currently the Co-Defensive coordinator and safeties coach for the Ole Miss Rebels football team. He is formerly the Paramus Catholic High School head coach.

Coaching career

Paramus Catholic High School

Partridge was the head coach of Paramus Catholic High School, a position he held for five seasons. While at the helm of the Paladin program, Partridge grew a football program listed 4,250th nationally and 112th in state of New Jersey to the top-ranked team in the state and No. 4 nationally by USA Today. He coached and mentored more than 30 Division I football players during that time, as well as various All-America players.

Michigan

Partridge was hired by Michigan in January of 2015 as the Director of Player Personnel. On December 3, 2015, it was announced that Partridge would coach the linebackers for Michigan during the 2016 Citrus Bowl, after the departure of Michigan defensive coordinator and linebackers coach D. J. Durkin, who left to be the head coach at Maryland.Partridge then took over as full time linebackers coach and helped with the special teams. On February 8, 2017, Partridge was promoted to Special Teams Coordinator and continued as linebackers coach. Before the 2018 season, Partridge was offered to join the Alabama Crimson Tide football staff, but chose to stay at Michigan. Weeks after, Partridge received a significant pay raise and new coaching duties. Partridge was assigned to coach safeties and continue as special teams coordinator, Al Washington took over as linebackers coach.

Ole Miss

On January 2, 2020, Chris Partridge was hired by Ole Miss and new head coach Lane Kiffin. Later, Partridge was named co-defensive coordinator alongside former Michigan assistant DJ Durkin.