Lembo Adds Two to Coaching Staff
1/21/2025 1:55:00 PM | Football
BUFFALO, NY – University at Buffalo football head coach Pete Lembo has hired two new coaches to his staff. Chris Monfiletto will serve as special teams coordinator and Jordan Johnson has been hired as running backs coach.
Monfiletto brings 20 years of experience to Buffalo as both an assistant and a head coach.
He most recently served as the special teams analyst at Wake Forest in 2024 and offensive assistant and interim offensive line coach at Colorado State in 2023.
Monfiletto spent four seasons at Rice (2019-22) where he served as special teams coordinator in 2021 and 2022 as well as tight ends coach and an offensive quality control assistant.
As a head coach, Monfiletto spent seven seasons at Kenyon College. He took over a Kenyon program in 2012 that was coming off consecutive winless seasons. In his first year, the team recorded six wins and managed the first winning season since 2005. The next season saw Kenyon win more games in two years since 1988-89. In 2017, Monfiletto's offense averaged 366.4 yards per game, ranking 21st in NCAA DIII in passing and yards per game. The team boasted the top three wide receivers in the North Coast Athletic Conference in receptions and two in the DIII top 10.
Prior to Kenyon, he served as offensive coordinator at Lycoming College where he directed an offense that averaged 360 yards and 28 points per game. In Monfiletto's two years at Lycoming, the team had a combined 14-6 record. In addition to his football coaching duties, Monfiletto also served as Lycoming's Director of Athletics from July-December 2011.
Monfiletto also served as the head coach at Western Reserve from 2008-2010, and before that spent three years as a running backs coach and recruiting coordinator at Davidson College. The Wildcats had two winning seasons during that time and Monfiletto tutored two of the top-ten rushers in the college's history.
In 2004-05, he served as the special teams coordinator and wide receivers/defensive backs coach at his high school alma mater, the Hun School of Princeton, leading the team to the New Jersey prep A state title.
Born in Newark, NJ, and raised in Solebury, Pennsylvania, Monfiletto attended high school at the Hun School and went on to play collegiate football at Davidson College, where he graduated in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in history. In the summer of 2011, he earned a master's degree in athletic administration from Ohio University's College of Business.
It's a homecoming for Johnson who is not only a Buffalo native but was a standout running back for the Bulls.
Since graduating from UB, Johnson has served as running backs coach at four different schools.
He is coming to Buffalo from Penn where he spent the 2024 season. With the Quakers, he coached Ivy League Player of the Year Malachi Hosley who led the conference in rushing with 1,192 yards and nine touchdowns. It was the eighth-best rushing total in program history. Hosley led the Ivy League in all rushing categories in 2024, including carries (191), yards (1,192), touchdowns (9), yards per carry (6.2), and yards per game (119.2).
Prior to Penn, Johnson spent four seasons as running backs coach at Bucknell.
In 2023, Johnson played a role in the Bison winning four games while running back Coleman Bennett was named a second-team All-Patriot League honoree. Bennett finished the season ranked seventh in the FCS and second in the Patriot League in all-purpose yards per game (137.7).
During the 2022 campaign, Bucknell averaged 114.4 yards per game on the ground. Under Johnson's guidance, sophomore running back Rushawn Baker totaled 646 rushing yards and a team-high seven touchdowns, while Coleman Bennett rushed for nearly 400 yards, recording 366 with two scores.
The 2021 season saw four different players—Jared Cooper, Rushawn Baker, Danny Meuser and Coleman Bennett—see the bulk of time at running back, with Cooper leading the way with 101 carries for 312 yards and two touchdowns. Meuser also scored two TDs while Baker finished second on the team with 235 rushing yards.
In Johnson's first season in Lewisburg in the spring of 2021, Bucknell went 2-2 in the COVID-shortened campaign, advancing to the first-and-only Patriot League Championship Game against Holy Cross, where the Bison fell, 33-10.
Johnson spent the 2019 campaign coaching running backs at Marist College. He helped guide Hunter Cobb to honorable mention All-Pioneer Football League honors after he rushed 122 times for 674 yards and 13 touchdowns.
Johnson began his career coach running backs at Erie Community College in 2017 and served as a graduate assistant at Fort Valley State in 2018.
Johnson was an All-MAC running back for the Bulls from 2012 to 2016. He ranks eighth in program history in career rushing with 2,212 yards over three seasons. His 282 rushing yards against Akron in 2016 stood as a program record until 2019. He rushed for 1,040 yards in 2016 and was named All-MAC Third Team.
A Buffalo native, Johnson was a two-time New York State Class A Player of the Year. A quarterback, he led Sweet Home High School to a 33-2 record and a state championship.
Monfiletto brings 20 years of experience to Buffalo as both an assistant and a head coach.
He most recently served as the special teams analyst at Wake Forest in 2024 and offensive assistant and interim offensive line coach at Colorado State in 2023.
Monfiletto spent four seasons at Rice (2019-22) where he served as special teams coordinator in 2021 and 2022 as well as tight ends coach and an offensive quality control assistant.
As a head coach, Monfiletto spent seven seasons at Kenyon College. He took over a Kenyon program in 2012 that was coming off consecutive winless seasons. In his first year, the team recorded six wins and managed the first winning season since 2005. The next season saw Kenyon win more games in two years since 1988-89. In 2017, Monfiletto's offense averaged 366.4 yards per game, ranking 21st in NCAA DIII in passing and yards per game. The team boasted the top three wide receivers in the North Coast Athletic Conference in receptions and two in the DIII top 10.
Prior to Kenyon, he served as offensive coordinator at Lycoming College where he directed an offense that averaged 360 yards and 28 points per game. In Monfiletto's two years at Lycoming, the team had a combined 14-6 record. In addition to his football coaching duties, Monfiletto also served as Lycoming's Director of Athletics from July-December 2011.
Monfiletto also served as the head coach at Western Reserve from 2008-2010, and before that spent three years as a running backs coach and recruiting coordinator at Davidson College. The Wildcats had two winning seasons during that time and Monfiletto tutored two of the top-ten rushers in the college's history.
In 2004-05, he served as the special teams coordinator and wide receivers/defensive backs coach at his high school alma mater, the Hun School of Princeton, leading the team to the New Jersey prep A state title.
Born in Newark, NJ, and raised in Solebury, Pennsylvania, Monfiletto attended high school at the Hun School and went on to play collegiate football at Davidson College, where he graduated in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in history. In the summer of 2011, he earned a master's degree in athletic administration from Ohio University's College of Business.
It's a homecoming for Johnson who is not only a Buffalo native but was a standout running back for the Bulls.
Since graduating from UB, Johnson has served as running backs coach at four different schools.
He is coming to Buffalo from Penn where he spent the 2024 season. With the Quakers, he coached Ivy League Player of the Year Malachi Hosley who led the conference in rushing with 1,192 yards and nine touchdowns. It was the eighth-best rushing total in program history. Hosley led the Ivy League in all rushing categories in 2024, including carries (191), yards (1,192), touchdowns (9), yards per carry (6.2), and yards per game (119.2).
Prior to Penn, Johnson spent four seasons as running backs coach at Bucknell.
In 2023, Johnson played a role in the Bison winning four games while running back Coleman Bennett was named a second-team All-Patriot League honoree. Bennett finished the season ranked seventh in the FCS and second in the Patriot League in all-purpose yards per game (137.7).
During the 2022 campaign, Bucknell averaged 114.4 yards per game on the ground. Under Johnson's guidance, sophomore running back Rushawn Baker totaled 646 rushing yards and a team-high seven touchdowns, while Coleman Bennett rushed for nearly 400 yards, recording 366 with two scores.
The 2021 season saw four different players—Jared Cooper, Rushawn Baker, Danny Meuser and Coleman Bennett—see the bulk of time at running back, with Cooper leading the way with 101 carries for 312 yards and two touchdowns. Meuser also scored two TDs while Baker finished second on the team with 235 rushing yards.
In Johnson's first season in Lewisburg in the spring of 2021, Bucknell went 2-2 in the COVID-shortened campaign, advancing to the first-and-only Patriot League Championship Game against Holy Cross, where the Bison fell, 33-10.
Johnson spent the 2019 campaign coaching running backs at Marist College. He helped guide Hunter Cobb to honorable mention All-Pioneer Football League honors after he rushed 122 times for 674 yards and 13 touchdowns.
Johnson began his career coach running backs at Erie Community College in 2017 and served as a graduate assistant at Fort Valley State in 2018.
Johnson was an All-MAC running back for the Bulls from 2012 to 2016. He ranks eighth in program history in career rushing with 2,212 yards over three seasons. His 282 rushing yards against Akron in 2016 stood as a program record until 2019. He rushed for 1,040 yards in 2016 and was named All-MAC Third Team.
A Buffalo native, Johnson was a two-time New York State Class A Player of the Year. A quarterback, he led Sweet Home High School to a 33-2 record and a state championship.
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