Chris Hampton

Biography

Oregon football head coach Dan Lanning added to his 2023 coaching staff on Jan. 25 with the hiring of Chris Hampton as the Ducks' new co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach. Hampton comes to Eugene after spending the last two seasons as the defensive coordinator at Tulane, helping guide the Green Wave to a 12-2 overall record in 2022 and a win over USC in the Cotton Bowl. Hampton spent four seasons (2016-19) as Tulane's defensive backs coach before leaving to be the cornerbacks coach at Duke in 2020, after which he returned to Tulane to take over as defensive coordinator. He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Arkansas State in 2008, and followed that up with two seasons (2009-10) in the same role at Georgia Tech. Hampton went to Central Arkansas as the safeties coach in 2011, and then spent four seasons (2012-15) as the defensive backs coach at McNeese State before joining Tulane.