Carter Blount brings 11 seasons of special teams experience at the collegiate and professional levels to his role as Georgia Tech’s senior special teams analyst in 2023.
Blount has been directly involved with special teams throughout his career, beginning as a graduate assistant at South Alabama in 2011. He went on to serve as special teams coordinator and cornerbacks coach at Birmingham Southern in 2014, followed by four-consecutive stints as a special teams analyst in the Southeastern Conference at Georgia (2015), LSU (2016), Alabama (2017) and Tennessee, where he held the title of senior special teams analyst from 2018-20. In addition to serving as a special teams analyst with the four SEC programs, he was elevated to special teams coordinator for bowl games with Georgia (2016 TaxSlayer Bowl win over Penn State) and LSU (2017 Citrus Bowl win over Louisville).
In 2021, he jumped to the NFL ranks, serving as defensive quality control/assistant linebackers coach/game management/special teams assistant with the New York Giants.
Blount began his coaching career as an undergraduate student at Alabama, first as a strength and conditioning intern in 2008, then as a special teams intern in 2009 before graduating from UA with a bachelor’s degree in education (exercise science) in 2010. He then went on to serve as associate head strength and conditioning coach and assistant linebackers coach at Tuscaloosa County (Ala.) H.S. in 2010 before his three-year stint at South Alabama, which culminated with him earning a master’s in health education in 2013.
Blount was a part of two national championship teams at Alabama – 2009 and 2017.
