Kyle Blocker joined Kennesaw State football in December 2024 as the special teams coordinator/tight ends coach.
Prior to Kennesaw, Blocker worked as the special teams coordinator at Miami (Ohio) in 2024 after two years as the special teams analyst at Tennessee.
Under Blocker’s tutelage, the RedHawks were the No. 4 team in the nation in punt return yards allowed (2.69 yards/return) and No. 15 team in kickoff return yards allowed (16.17 yards). He also mentored Lou Groza Award semifinalist and first-team all-MAC kicker Dom Dzioban.
While in Knoxville, Blocker was the special teams analyst from 2022-23. In 2023, the Volunteers finished third in the country with four blocked kicks and were fourth nationally with two blocked punts.
Tennessee was 23rd in net punting, allowing just 4 return yards all season long and finished 15th in punt return average.
Prior to joining the Volunteers, Blocker was a defensive backs graduate assistant at North Texas from 2020-21. He also spent time at Kansas (2018-20), Missouri State (2015-18) and Missouri (2013-15). He worked directly with the Jayhawks' special teams in 2020 and was part of the Bears' special teams coaching staff from 2015-16.
Blocker graduated from the University of Missouri in 2015 with a degree in sports management and added his master's degree in administrative studies from Missouri State in 2017.
Blocker began his football career as a free safety for the football team at Southeast Missouri State from 2010-11.
