Safety Malachi Moore, the Jets’ second-of-two fourth-round picks, has had impressive coaching in the secondary throughout his career.
He was predominantly coached by Nick Saban at Alabama, who played defensive back at Kent State before a Hall of Fame coaching career, and now Aaron Glenn, who lined up at cornerback for 15 seasons in the NFL after he was drafted in the first round in 1994.
“Coach Saban is more of a yeller, but right now Coach Glenn has been kind of observing, encouraging us to keep working and keep pushing forward,” Moore said after Saturday’s rookie minicamp practice. “But he has that side to him, for sure. I’m pretty sure I’ll see that later down the road.”
He added: “As a rookie, I couldn’t think of a better coaching staff to come in to when you talk about the level of experience they’ve had or them being around the game. I’m just trying to be a sponge, asking them any question that comes to mind and just pick their brain about the game as much as possible.”
Moore, who played the “star” position in college that Lions DB Brian Branch played for the Crimson Tide, said he would talk to Branch about Glenn over the course of last season. Moore did the same with former Alabama CB Terrion Arnold, who was drafted by the Lions in the first round in 2024.
“When I would call BB or Terrion, we would just talk about Coach Glenn, what they run and everything like that, but Terrion actually gave some insight on who Coach Glenn actually was,” Moore said. “Before Terrion told me, I really didn’t know that [Glenn] was that fire back in his day.”