David Alexander (American football)


David Franklin Alexander is a high school football coach and a former professional American football center and guard. He played ten seasons in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Jets. He played college football at the University of Tulsa and was drafted in the fifth round of the 1987 NFL Draft.
After his professional career, Alexander operated a business as a custom homebuilder, while also pursuing a career in coaching. He worked as an assistant coach for seven years at Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma. In 2005-06, he was also head coach of the Tulsa Talons of the af2 arena football league. In 2013, he left Jenks to move to neighboring Broken Arrow High School, where he had played and graduated in 1982, as the running backs coach. In January 2014 he was announced as Broken Arrow's new head football coach.