Quintin Demps joined the Trojan football coaching staff as assistant coach/defensive secondary in 2021. A former National Football League safety and kick returner for 10 seasons starting in 2008, he had a brief stint during the 2020–21 pandemic year at Grayslake High School (Ill.) coaching track and football as defensive coordinator.Â
Demps played division I college football at Texas-El Paso, and was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles as the 117th overall pick in the fourth round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He went on to make the NFC Championship Game during the 2008 season with the Eagles. He has also been a member of the Hartford Colonials, Houston Texans, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Giants and Chicago Bears, where he had signed a three-year contract in 2017 but was released in 2018, having been placed on injured reserve after suffering a fractured forearm in Week 3 of the 2017 season.
Demps attended Theodore Roosevelt High School in San Antonio and was a letterman in football and track. In football, as a junior, he led his team to the District Title and was a second team All-District 26-5A selection. As a senior, he was named as an All-District 26-5A selection, an All-Greater San Antonio selection, and as an All-State Honorable Mention selection.
While at Texas-El Paso, Demps earned first-team All-Conference USA honors as a senior in 2007, when he had a pair of 100-yard interception returns. He ranks second in school history with 17 interceptions.
