Southeastern Louisiana University Athletics

Kerry Joseph, one of the most accomplished players in the history of the Southland Conference, joined the Southeastern Louisiana football coaching staff as running backs coach and passing game coordinator in March 2019.

Joseph opened his coaching career at his alma mater, McNeese, where he spent the past three seasons as co-offensive coordinator. In 2016 and 2017, his duties included working with the team’s wide receivers, while he coached quarterbacks in 2018. He also served training camp internships with the New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
 
Joseph, a native of New Iberia, Louisiana, joined the coaching ranks after a near two-decade professional career that saw him play in the NFL, CFL, NFL Europe and World League.
 
He spent the majority of his NFL career with the Seattle Seahawks, playing in 56 games at safety from 1998-01. He made 14 starts in Seattle and intercepted three passes during the 2009 season.
 
His highest point as a pro came during the 2007 season as a member of the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders. Joseph, the CFL’s Outstanding Player that season, helped the Roughriders to their third Grey Cup in school history.
 
As a quarterback at McNeese from 1992-95, Joseph led the Cowboys to 41 wins and three Southland Conference titles as a starter. During his time under center, McNeese won its first playoff game in school history (1992) and advanced to the national semifinals for the first time in 1995.
 
The Southland Conference and Louisiana Player of the Year as a senior, Joseph helped that 1995 Cowboy squad to a 13-1 record, as McNeese spent the majority of the season ranked No. 1 nationally. A 2012 Southland Conference Hall of Honor inductee and a member of the McNeese Sports Hall of Fame, Joseph threw for 7,874 yards and a school record 67 touchdown passes during his four years in Lake Charles.
 
Kerry Joseph, Running Backs/Passing Game Coordinator
Hometown: New Iberia, Louisiana
Education: McNeese, 1995
 
Coaching Timeline
2019 – Southeastern Louisiana – Running Backs/Passing Game Coordinator
2018 – McNeese – Co-Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks
2016-17 – McNeese – Co-Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers
 
Playing Career
CFL, QB, 2003-14 (Ottawa Renegades, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Toronto Argonauts, Edmonton Eskimos)
            - Grey Cup champion/CFL Most Outstanding Player Award, 2007
NFL, QB/DB, 1996; 1998-01 (Cincinnati Bengals, Seattle Seahawks)
London Monarchs (World League), QB, 1997
Rhein Fire (NFL Europe), QB, 1998
McNeese, QB, 1992-95
            - Southland Conference Hall of Honor (2012)
            - McNeese Hall of Fame (2006)
            - Southland Conference/Louisiana Player of the Year (1995)
            - Southland Conference/Louisiana Freshman of the Year (1992)
            - All-Southland Conference (1994, 1995)