Jon Carr is in his third season as the director, college scouting with the Jets after 11 seasons with the Texans, the last three as their director of college scouting. Prior to that he served as national and college scout with Houston.
In his current role, Carr manages the college scouting department and assigns responsibilities to the team's national and college scouts. He works directly with General Manager Joe Douglas on evaluating college prospects around the country and organizing the college free agency process. He also organizes and helps manage the personnel meetings leading up to the NFL Draft.
Prior to joining an NFL front office with the Texans, Carr worked as the wide receivers coach at the University of Toledo (2005-06) and as the offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Eastern Illinois (2003-04). He began his college coaching career at Tennessee State, first as an assistant coach (1997-99) and later as the offensive coordinator (2000-02).
During the summer of 2002, Carr was a member of the Oakland Raiders staff as part of the NFL Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship and has participated in the 2006 NCAA Expert Coach's Academy in Miami, the NFL Stanford Program for Managers at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2012 and the 2018 NFL Career Development Symposium. He has also worked with the National Football League Properties as the program coordinator for Chicago and Detroit summer youth inner-city football camps.
Carr played quarterback at Southeast Missouri State from 1987-89 before transferring to Purdue, where he earned a degree in law and society in 1991.
Carr has one son, Corbyn, and two daughters, Kennedy and Kayla.
