Kerry Webb enters his second season on the Samford football coaching staff. He is responsible for coaching the team’s special teams.
In his first season at Samford in 2023, the Bulldogs ranked second in the Southern Conference in return yards.
Webb came to Birmingham after spending the 2022 season as a special teams analyst at Virginia Tech. While in Blacksburg, the Hokies ranked fourth nationally in punt return defense. The Virginia Tech special teams unit held opponents to 32 return yards on 74 punts and set a single-game program record with 188 punt return yards against Georgia Tech.
No stranger to the Southern Conference, Webb was the Special Teams Coordinator and nickel backs coach at Western Carolina in 2021. During his lone season with the Catamounts, WCU ranked in the top 30 nationally in punt and kicko return average, while Richard McCollum led the country in fi eld goal percentage.
Webb came to Cullowhee after a couple of coaching stints at Valdosta State, starting as a graduate assistant in the mid-2000s and most recently, returning as the special teams coordinator and running backs coach from 2017-20. He was the program’s recruiting coordinator from 2019-2021 and was named interim head coach in January 2019 during VSU’s coaching search.
Webb was on staff for Valdosta State’s 2018 undefeated season, winning the NCAA Division II National Championship. In 2019, VSU also won the Gulf South Conference title as it went 10-0 overall through the regular season and 8-0 in conference play. VSU finished the season 10-1 as it earned a berth in the NCAA Second Round.
Under Webb’s guidance, 2018 VSU freshmen running back Jamar Thompkins (first-team) and Seth McGill (second-team) both garnered All-Gulf South Conference honors. In addition, kicker Andrew Gray became the VSU Blazer all-time leading scorer while also being voted second-team All-Gulf South Conference. In 2019, Thompkins and McGill earned first-team all-conference honors, while kicker Fernando Ramirez earned second-team all-league accolades.
Before returning to Valdosta in 2017, Webb took a position at Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tenn., where he spent one year as the associate head coach and special teams coordinator while also coaching the wide receivers. Webb’s direction helped produce first-team All-South Atlantic Conference honors for return specialist Jay Boyd in 2016.
On the back end of his time with the Blazers as a graduate assistant in the mid-2000s, Webb transitioned into his fi rst full-time coaching position as a running backs coach and special teams coordinator at Jacksonville University.
Notable accomplishments throughout Webb’s career include the guidance of the Jacksonville running backs in 2010, which led the Dolphin offense to a No. 1 ranking in the country. The squad nearly repeated the feat in 2013 with a No. 5 ranking, and the Dolphins ranked 3rd nationally in overall scoring during that same season. Webb also coached Jacksonville University’s career all-time leading rusher Rudell Small and second all-time leading rusher Ulysses Bryant. He additionally coached the school’s career all-time leader in kickoff return yards and average per return, Colby Walden.
A 2004 graduate of the University of Florida with a bachelor of arts degree in sociology, Webb earned his Master’s degree in Education Health and Physical Education from Valdosta State in 2006.
