Football
- Title:
- Assistant Director of Football Operations / STQC
Brodney Pool, a seven-year NFL veteran and former All-Big 12 safety, is in his second season on Baylor’s operations staff. His duties are in special teams quality control, including game-planning and film breakdown.
A second-round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns in the 2005 NFL Draft, Pool spent five years with the Browns (2005-2009) and two with the New York Jets (2010-2011). He totaled 365 tackles, 13 interceptions, 49 passes defensed and 5.5 sacks in seven NFL seasons.
Pool owns the Browns franchise record for longest interception return, a 100-yard touchdown in a 33-30 win over Baltimore in 2007.
A standout safety at the University of Oklahoma, Pool was twice named All-Big 12 and earned third-team All-America honors as a junior in 2004. In three seasons at OU, he totaled 144 tackles and nine interceptions.
He played for OU defensive coordinators Mike Stoops, Brent Venables and Bo Pelini, and was a member of two Big 12 championship teams (2002 and 2004). The 2002 Oklahoma squad won the Rose Bowl and in 2003 and 2004 Pool played in BCS national championship games for the Sooners.
A star athlete from Houston’s Westbury High School, Pool played defensive back (school-record 11 interceptions as senior in 2001), running back and ran track.
Pool and his wife Kady are the parents of one daughter, Brooklyn Rose, and one son, Blaze.
