Cole Weeks - Football Coach - Troy University Athletics

Cole Weeks

Title:
Tight Ends & S-Backs
Email:
jmorgan@troy.edu
Phone:
3682

Cole Weeks begins his third season as an offensive assistant coach at Troy following two seasons at Auburn; Weeks will coach Troy’s running backs for the second straight year after working with the S-Backs and tight ends in his first season.

In his first year coaching the running backs (2020), true freshman Kimani Vidal ranked sixth among all freshmen running backs averaging 3.83 yards after contact, eighth with four touchdowns and ninth among freshmen averaging 57.3 yards per game. Troy’s combo of Vidal and B.J. Smith combined for 66 catches for 452 yards; they were just one of two combos nationally to catch more than 25 passes and 225 yards from the running back position.

In his first year with the Trojans, redshirt freshman tight end A.J. Lewis caught a Troy Division I record (tight end) three touchdowns. As a unit, the Trojans topped the 500-yard mark in total offense on six different occasions to tie the program’s DI record and scored 35-plus points eight times; the second most in program history and fourth most in Sun Belt Conference history. The Trojans finished ninth nationally in passing offense (313.2), 25th in scoring offense (33.8) and 18th in total offense (456.3).

Weeks primarily worked with Auburn’s quarterbacks during his two-year stint as a graduate assistant. Troy head coach Chip Lindsey served as Auburn’s offensive coordinator during both of Weeks’ seasons on The Plains.

In 2017, Auburn became just the eighth team in SEC history and the first in Auburn history to rush and pass for 3,000 yards in a season. The Tigers also ranked 26th nationally in total offense and set an Auburn record scoring 327 points in SEC play. Auburn won the SEC West Division after knocking off a pair of top-ranked teams in Georgia and Alabama over a three-week period.

All-SEC quarterback Jarrett Stidham, the second Auburn player ever to throw for 3,000 yards in a season, led the SEC and ranked ninth nationally in completion percentage. Running back Kerryon Johnson was SEC Offensive Player of the Year, and Ryan Davis set an Auburn receiving record with 84 catches.

Weeks’ final season at Auburn saw the Tigers defeat Pac-12 Champion Washington and nationally-ranked Texas A&M.

Weeks came to Auburn from Jones County Junior College where he coached the quarterbacks in 2016 and fellow Troy assistant coach John Carr served as the offensive coordinator. Jones County finished among the national leaders in rushing offense (seventh at 238.6 ypg), total offense (18th at 392.8 ypg) and scoring offense (27th at 30.4 ppg).

He began his coaching career as graduate assistant working with the quarterbacks at Southern Miss in 2015 when Lindsey was the offensive coordinator. The Southern Miss offense broke five single-season school records in 2015: completions (312), passing yards (4,263), total offense yards (6,758), touchdowns (67) and points (528), as the Golden Eagles recorded nine wins, a Conference USA West title, and a berth in the Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl against Washington.

A quarterback at Southern Miss from 2011-14, he started two games as a senior, against UTEP and Marshall, and passed for 761 yards and two touchdowns on the season. Weeks passed for 300-plus-yards against Louisiana Tech (338) and UTEP (309). An outstanding scholar-athlete, he received the Jim Castaneda postgraduate scholarship from Conference USA.

Weeks graduated from Southern Miss in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in coaching education and earned his master’s degree in adult education from Auburn in 2018.

A native of Freeport, Fla., Weeks was a three-sport letterman at Freeport High, leading the Bulldogs to the football district and regional titles as a senior. Weeks is married to the former Alexis Barbaresi.