Jerry Fontenot

{{Short description|American football player and coach (born 1966)}}

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{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Jerry Fontenot

| number = 67, 62

| position = Center

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|11|21}}

| birth_place = Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 3

| weight_lb = 300

| high_school = Lafayette (LA)

| college = Texas A&M

| draftyear = 1989

| draftround = 3

| draftpick = 65

| pastteams =

• Chicago Bears ({{NFL Year|1989|1996}})
• New Orleans Saints ({{NFL Year|1997|2003}})
• Cincinnati Bengals ({{NFL Year|2004}})

| pastcoaching =

• Green Bay Packers ({{NFL Year|2006}}–{{NFL Year|2010}})
  Assistant offensive line coach
• Green Bay Packers ({{NFL Year|2011}})
  Running backs coach
• Green Bay Packers ({{NFL Year|2012}}–{{NFL Year|2015}})
  Tight ends coach
• Los Angeles Wildcats ({{XFL Year|2020}})
  Offensive line coach

| highlights =

• Super Bowl champion (XLV)
• First-team All-SWC (1988)

| statlabel1 = Games played

| statvalue1 = 239

| statlabel2 = Games started

| statvalue2 = 195

| statlabel3 = Fumble recoveries

| statvalue3 = 7

| pfr = F/FontJe20

}}

Jerry Paul Fontenot (born November 21, 1966) is an American football coach and former center who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago Bears, New Orleans Saints and Cincinnati Bengals.

{{NFL predraft

| height ft = 6

| height in = 3 1/2

| weight = 272

| dash = 5.17

| ten split = 1.76

| twenty split = 3.01

| shuttle = 4.48

| vertical = 28.0

| broad ft = 8

| broad in = 10

| bench = 24

}}

He was drafted by the Bears in the third round of the 1989 NFL Draft.{{Cite web |title=1989 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1989/draft.htm |access-date=2023-05-26 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}} He attended Texas A&M University.

Fontenot served as an assistant offensive line coach and tight ends coach for the Green Bay Packers from 2006 to 2015.{{cite web |url=http://www.packers.com/team/coaches/ |title=Coaches |publisher=Packers.com |access-date=22 January 2013}} On January 19, 2016, Fontenot was fired.{{Cite web |url=http://www.packers.com/news-and-events/article-press-release/article-1/Packers-announce-coaching-staff-changes/18ff04b5-14bb-4cf6-80c4-9a1b8a15b26c?campaign=sf19212341 |title=Packers announce coaching staff changes |access-date=2016-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426104336/http://www.packers.com/news-and-events/article-press-release/article-1/Packers-announce-coaching-staff-changes/18ff04b5-14bb-4cf6-80c4-9a1b8a15b26c?campaign=sf19212341 |archive-date=2016-04-26 |url-status=dead }} In 2019, he became offensive line coach for the Los Angeles Wildcats of the XFL.{{cite web|url=https://xflnewshub.com/xfl-teams/patriots-otis-smith-xfl-los-angeles/|title=Former Patriots CB Otis Smith Added XFL Los Angeles Staff|publisher=XFL News Hub|date=June 12, 2019|access-date=October 15, 2019}}