Samie Parker - Football Coach - Rice University Athletics

Samie Parker

Title:
Quality Control Coordinator/Wide Receivers
Email:
fbrecruiting@rice.edu
Phone:
348-6900

Former NFL receiver Samie Parker joined the Owls’ staff in the spring of 2022 as a Quality Control coach assisting Mike Kershaw with the wide receivers. He joins the Owls from Washington State where he served as a recruiting assistant in 2021.

Parker was a standout in both football and track at Oregon from 2000-03, earning All-American honors in track and is the Ducks’ career leader in receiving yards (2,716) while sharing the career (178) and single-season (77) reception records. He also set school bowl game records with 16 receptions and 200 yards against Minnesota to earn MVP honors in the 2003 Sun Bowl which followed a nine-catch, 162-yard effort one year earlier against Colorado in the Fiesta Bowl.

He was a fourth-round pick out of Oregon by Kansas City in 2004 and caught 110 passes for 1,529 yards and seven touchdowns in 47 games (31 starts) over four seasons with the Chiefs. He played with former Rice quarterback Chase Clement with the Las Vegas Locomotives of the UFL in 2009 & 2010, the later season when Clement was named the MVP of the championship game. He also played in the Arena Football League for three seasons, concluding his career in 2013 as a member of the Los Angeles Kiss.

He began his coaching career later in 2013 at MidAmerica Nazarene. He was the assistant wide receivers coach at Long Beach Poly HS in 2015 where he coached Jack Jones (4^th round pick by New England in 2022). He worked as a coaching intern with the Chiefs in 2016 & 2018, helping develop Tyreek Hill and Demarcus Robinson as rookies in 2016 and DeAnthony Thomas in 2018.

He coached for one season at Whittier College before moving to The Spring League beginning in 2018 where he sent five of his players on to the USFL (La'Michael Pettway, Michigan; Cam Echols-Luper & Woody Brandom, New Jersey; DelVon Hardaway & Isaiah Hennie, Pittsburgh) and saw two others make NFL practice squads: Blake Jackson (Cleveland 2018) Julian Williams (Atlanta 2019).

He has twice served on the staff of the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl. In 2015 he coached Jaydon Mickens (a member of Tampa Bay’s Super Bowl team) while in 2022 he where mentored Braylon Sanders (FA Miami Dolphins) and Dai'Jean Dixon (FA New Orleans Saints).