{"id":139625,"date":"2025-09-07T15:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139625\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T15:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:13:06","slug":"eagles-legends-desean-jackson-michael-vick-make-college-football-coaching-personal-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/139625\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles legends DeSean Jackson, Michael Vick make college football coaching personal history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/philadelphia-eagles\/news\/eagles-legends-desean-jackson-michael-vick-college-football-coaching-history\/f9327b14dc7e0ec0d6e9851d?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eagles legends DeSean Jackson, Michael Vick make college football coaching personal history;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Eagles legends DeSean Jackson, Michael Vick make college football coaching personal history<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two former stars of the Philadelphia Eagles reached the same personal milestone on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>DeSean Jackson and Michael Vick are officially both victorious college football head coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson is in his first year as the head coach at Delaware State, and his victory came in a wild game.<\/p>\n<p>They trailed by two points with 4:38 to play, and then with two minutes on the clock, weather delayed the game for\u00a0three hours, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/albany-delaware-state-head-coach-desean-jackson-514036474387214652d99c7f399a0410\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Associated Press;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The wait was worth it for Jackson. With 34 seconds left, Kaiden Bennett took off for a 27-yard touchdown run and a 37-32 victory over Albany.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/washington-commanders\/news\/why-jacory-croskey-merritt-called-bill-story-commanders-rookie-rb-nickname\/68a88633b511298d2ad21db6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Why Jacory Croskey-Merritt is called Bill;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Why Jacory Croskey-Merritt is called Bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vick, who was coaching his second game for Norfolk State, made it interesting, too.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>His squad needed overtime to pull off a 34-31 win over Virginia State.<\/p>\n<p>Norfolk State trailed 31-24 with 2:15 left but rallied to force OT. The comeback had started earlier: It was a 16-point deficit entering the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>It was quite the Saturday for first coaching wins.<\/p>\n<p>The most headline-driving first win came from North Carolina, where Bill Belichick got his first college coaching win. But he was also proven at the NFL level for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>For Jackson and Vick, it had to feel a bit more special.<\/p>\n<p>They both took over football programs at HBCUs to try and uplift the young men that have been put into their care.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>And on Saturday, they were both winners.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NFL NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eagles legends DeSean Jackson, Michael Vick make college football coaching personal history originally appeared on The Sporting News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[87024,87023,399,61867,87025,11887,398,396,397,87026,1239,99],"class_list":["post-139625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-delaware-state","tag-desean-jackson","tag-football","tag-jacory-croskey-merritt","tag-kaiden-bennett","tag-michael-vick","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-norfolk-state","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}