Roderick Plummer
Roderick Plummer

Position:
Special Teams Coordinator / Running Backs

Experience:
1st Season at UMassR

Alma Mater:
Washington State '93


Roderick Plummer joins the Minutemen as the special teams coordinator and running backs coach bringing with him 17 years of coaching experience at all levels of college football. For the past three seasons, Plummer served as the special teams coordinator and running backs coach at Yale.

For the past decade, Plummer has coached special teams with three of his players either being drafted or picked up as free agents with the National Football League.

His coaching career includes stops at Florida A&M, Idaho, Cornell, and Michigan State where he coached under Nick Saban and Bobby Williams.

Plummer began his coaching career in 1994 with Kutztown University. He also served National Footbal League Coaching Internships with Philadelphia, Jacksonville, San Francisco and Cleveland.

A native of Oakland, Calif., Plummer is a 1993 graduate of Washington State where he was a four-year letter winner and starting linebacker for the Cougars. In 2002, he was inducted into the St. Mary's College High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

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