Scott Booker is in his fifth season with the Titans and in his third season as safeties coach. He arrived in Tennessee in 2018 as a defensive assistant following 15 years of college coaching experience.

Scott Booker is in his fifth season with the Titans and in his third season as safeties coach. He arrived in Tennessee in 2018 as a defensive assistant following 15 years of college coaching experience.

In 2021, Booker helped safety Kevin Byard earn first-team All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors. Byard became the franchise's first player to lead the team in tackles (88) and interceptions (five) in the same season since the team began tracking individual tackle statistics in 1974, and his 13 passes defensed led all NFL safeties. Meanwhile, Amani Hooker was a full-time starter for the first time in his career and totaled a career-best 62 tackles.

In 2020, Byard led the team and set a career high with 111 tackles, while Hooker emerged as a playmaker for the defense in his second season, tying for the team lead with four interceptions. As a unit, the Titans defense ranked seventh in the NFL with 15 interceptions, which was most by the Titans since 2012.

In 2019, Booker helped Byard and Kenny Vaccaro solidify themselves as one of the NFL's top safety duos. Each safety started all 16 games, a first for the team since 2010. Byard's five interceptions tied for the second-highest total among all NFL safeties, and only four teams had more interceptions from their safeties than the six combined from Byard and Vaccaro during the regular season. In the playoffs, Byard and Vaccaro each notched an interception in a divisional round win at Baltimore.

As a defensive assistant focused on the safeties in 2018, Booker helped Byard accumulate four interceptions and worked to acclimate Vaccaro to the Titans defense after the veteran was added during training camp. The Titans ranked sixth in the NFL in passing defense (216.9 yards per game), and they ranked eighth in the league with an opponent passer rating of 88.4.

Prior to joining the Titans, Booker coached safeties and special teams for Nebraska in 2017.

Booker spent seven years at Notre Dame, first as an offensive intern from 2010-11 and then as tight ends and special teams coordinator from 2012-16. During his time in South Bend, the Fighting Irish participated in six bowl games, including the 2012 BCS National Championship Game and the 2015 Fiesta Bowl. In 2012, tight end Tyler Eifert won the John Mackey Award and was a consensus first team All-American. Eifert, along with tight ends Ben Koyack and Troy Niklas, were all drafted in the NFL after playing under Booker.

On special teams under Booker's watch, kicker Kyle Brindza set Notre Dame career records for field goals (57), field-goal attempts (81) and 50-yard field goals (four), while also establishing the top three single-season point totals by a kicker in Irish history. From 2015-16, Booker's special teams units scored six touchdowns, including four in 2015, which was the most by a Notre Dame team since 2000. The previous year (2014), Notre Dame led the nation in blocked kicks.

Booker was the secondary coach at Western Kentucky in 2009 after playing and coaching under former Titans defensive coordinator Dean Pees at Kent State. After playing in the secondary for the Golden Flashes when Pees was the head coach, he joined the coaching staff as a graduate assistant from 2003-04 and then served as the secondary coach from 2005-08. In that time, he developed a pair of NFL Draft picks in Jack Williams and Usama Young and helped Kent State rank first or second in the MAC in pass efficiency defense, pass defense and interceptions in 2006.

The Pittsburgh, Pa., native was a four-year letter winner for the Golden Flashes from 1999 to 2002, and he was named to the MAC all-academic team in 2001. He earned his bachelor's in business administration from Kent State in 2003, and his master's in sport studies in 2006.

He and his wife, Jennifer, have one daughter, Morgan.

Scott Booker's Coaching Timeline:

2020-22: Safeties, Tennessee Titans

2018-19: Defensive Assistant, Tennessee Titans

2017: Safeties and Special Teams Coordinator, Nebraska

2012-16: Tight Ends and Special Teams Coordinator, Notre Dame

2010-11: Offensive Intern, Notre Dame

2009: Secondary, Western Kentucky

2005-08: Defensive Backs, Kent State

2003-04: Graduate Assistant, Kent State