Jahri Evans begins his third year as a member of the Saints coaching staff and first as the assistant offensive line coach. Evans first entered the coaching ranks after serving as a 2022 training camp intern joined the team on a full-time basis in 2023 as an offensive assistant, working with the line.
Evans was drafted by the Saints in the fourth round (108th overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft and spent the first 11 seasons of his 12-year playing career with the Saints. Overall, he started 183 career regular season games (169 for the Black and Gold) at right guard for the Saints (2006-16) and Green Bay Packers (2017). Evans also opened all ten Saints playoff games. Evans was a six-time Pro Bowl selection, a five-time AP All-Pro and was named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame's 2010's All-Decade Team. With Evans leading the way up front, New Orleans finished in the top ten in total offense each of the 11 seasons he lined up for the Saints, while the 196 sacks surrendered by the line over the period were the lowest in the NFC and second-lowest in the NFL.
After being selected as a consensus All-Rookie in 2006, Evans was a Pro Bowl starter and consensus first-team All-Pro each season from 2009-12. He was elected to the Saints Hall of Fame in 2020, the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2022 and the Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame and Saints Ring of Honor in 2024 and was a semifinalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of 2023 and a finalist for the Class of 2024 and Class of 2025.
A three-year starter at Bloomsburg, which he originally attended on a combined academic/athletic scholarship, Evans anchored the left tackle position and was a finalist for the Division II Gene Upshaw Offensive Player of the Year Award in 2004 and 2005. The Philadelphia native graduated with a bachelor's degree in exercise science and received his MBA from the University of Miami (Fla.) in Executive Business Administration in 2017.
Evans and his wife, Takia, have two sons.
PLAYING CAREER: Bloomsburg, 2001-05; New Orleans Saints, 2006-16; Green Bay Packers, 2017.
COACHING CAREER: New Orleans Saints, 2023-.
