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Jordan Johnson is in his first season as running backs coach. 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 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.