Vinnie Sunseri

With more than a decade of playing and coaching experience, exclusively at the Power Four level and in the National Football League, Vinnie Sunseri came to Georgia Tech in 2026 as the Yellow Jackets’ defensive backs coach.

Sunseri most recently served as co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach at Florida in 2025, after spending the 2024 campaign as safeties coach at Washington.

From 2020-23, Sunseri was a member of the New England Patriots coaching staff, first as a defensive assistant in 2020, followed by three seasons as running backs coach.

Sunseri began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Alabama in 2019.

Sunseri’s coaching career followed three seasons as a player in the NFL. He was a fifth-round NFL Draft pick out of Alabama in 2014, where he won two national championships in three seasons (2011 and 2012). He graduated from Alabama in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in business management.

Sunseri married his wife, Kaci, in 2022 and they have a daughter, Soleil.

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With more than a decade of playing and coaching experience, exclusively at the Power Four level and in the National Football League, Vinnie Sunseri came to Georgia Tech in 2026 as the Yellow Jackets’ defensive backs coach.

Sunseri most recently served as co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach at Florida in 2025. Prior to his lone season at Florida, he spent the 2024 campaign as safeties coach at Washington, where he helped the Huskies rank fifth nationally in passing yards allowed (166.8 ypg) and eighth in pass-efficiency defense (110.51 efficiency rating).

From 2020-23, Sunseri was a member of the New England Patriots coaching staff, first as a defensive assistant in 2020, followed by three seasons as running backs coach. During his time in New England, Patriots’ running back Damien Harris tied for second in the NFL with 15 rushing touchdowns in 2021 and Rhamondre Stevenson became the Pats’ first 1,000-yard rusher in six years and caught 69 passes – good for fourth in the league by a RB and fourth-most in team history – in 2022.

Sunseri began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Alabama in 2019. In his lone season on the Crimson Tide’s staff, he helped coach three defensive backs that went on to play in the NFL, including second-round draft pick Xavier McKinney.

Sunseri’s coaching career followed three seasons as a player in the NFL. He spent two seasons with the New Orleans Saints (2014-15) as a fifth-round draft pick out of Alabama, then played for the Patriots and San Francisco 49ers in 2016.

A safety, Sunseri racked up 105 tackles and four interceptions in three seasons at Alabama (2011-13), winning back-to-back national championships with the Crimson Tide as a true freshman in 2011 and a sophomore in 2012. He had 54 tackles, including six for loss and one-and-a-half sacks, and two interceptions as a sophomore in 2012 and returned two INTs for touchdowns in just six games before sustaining a season-ending injury as a junior in 2013. Prior to the injury in ’13, he played in all 33 of Alabama’s games over his three seasons with the Crimson Tide.

Sunseri is the son of longtime college and NFL coach Sal Sunseri and brother of Indiana co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Tino Sunseri. Vinnie coached alongside Sal and Tino at Alabama in 2019, when Sal was the Crimson Tide’s linebackers coach and Tino was a fellow graduate assistant.

Vinnie graduated from Alabama in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in business management.

He married his wife, Kaci, in 2022 and they have a daughter, Soleil.