Anthony Poindexter
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| Sport(s) | American football |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Co-defensive coordinator & safeties coach |
| Team | Purdue |
| Conference | Big Ten |
| Annual salary | $425,000 |
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| Born |
July 28, 1976 Lynchburg, Virginia |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia |
| Playing career | |
| 1995-98 | Virginia |
| 1999-2001 | Baltimore Ravens |
| 2001 | Cleveland Browns |
| Position(s) | Safety |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2003 | Virginia (GA) |
| 2004-2005 | Virginia (RB) |
| 2006-2008 | Virginia (RB/Assis. ST) |
| 2009 | Virginia (DB/Assis. ST) |
| 2010-2012 | Virginia (S/ST) |
| 2013 | Virginia (S) |
| 2014-2016 | Connecticut (DC/S) |
| 2017-present | Purdue (Co-DC/S) |
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Anthony Scott Poindexter (born July 28, 1976) is a former American college and professional football player in the National Football League (NFL) for a single season. He played college football for the University of Virginia, and earned All-American honors. He played professional football for the Baltimore Ravens and the Cleveland Browns. He is currently the Co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach at Purdue University.
Poindexter was born in Lynchburg, Virginia. He attended New London Academy, Forest Middle School, and Jefferson Forest High School in Forest, Virginia and played for the Jefferson Forest Cavaliers middle school football team and high school football team. In middle school, he played quarterback and led his team to an undefeated season. Following his high school career, where he played quarter back and safety, he "was [named] the Group AA Defensive Player of the Year in Virginia in 1993 after leading the Cavaliers to two consecutive Group AA Division 3 state championships, beating Matoaca both years in the finals. Poindexter's sophomore year, his brother, John, who went on to excel as a wide receiver at Ferrum College, quarterbacked the team to the state finals, where they lost to Nottoway." Anthony Poindexter also excelled on the varsity basketball and baseball teams during his time at Jefferson Forest and was drafted by Major League baseball teams after his senior year in high school and again following his junior year at UVA, despite not having played while in college.
Poindexter accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Virginia and he played safety for coach George Welsh's Virginia Cavaliers football team from 1995 to 1998. He was compared to NFL players, such as Ronnie Lott, for his hard-hitting style. As a redshirt freshman in 1995, Poindexter teamed with fellow defensive back Adrian Burnim in one of the most famous plays in Cavalier history as the two stopped Florida State's running back Warrick Dunn inches from the endzone on the last play of the game, which preserved Virginia's 33–28 victory over the Seminoles. That was the first time Virginia or any other ACC team had defeated the Seminoles in conference play. In 1996, he made a school record with 98 tackles and as a junior in 1997 he had his first All-American season with 78 tackles. As a junior, Poindexter had the choice between declaring himself for the 1998 NFL Draft or staying in college for his senior year. Draft experts projected that he would likely be drafted in the first round, but Poindexter stayed at Virginia for his senior season. The Cavaliers were expected to have a very strong team and were ranked as high as the top ten. In the first seven games of the season, Poindexter made 73 tackles, two sacks and three interceptions.
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