Luke Thompson is in his third season as an assistant special teams coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars. In 2023, he helped coach a unit that had the second most kickoff return yards (688), fourth most net yards per punt (43.8) and ninth most yards per punt return (10.2). Additionally, LS Ross Matiscik was named to the 2024 Pro Bowl Games, received first team Associated Press All-Pro and first-team NFL Players Association All-Pro honors for the first time in his career.
In 2022, he helped coach a special teams unit that ranked third in yards per punt (49.34) and 11th in team field goals made (30). He helped K Riley Patterson convert 30 field goals which tied him for eighth-most among kickers and includes a game-tying field goal against the Cowboys resulting in a overtime win (40-34) and a game-winning field goal against the Chargers in the Wild Card Round (31-30). He also helped produce the Jaguars first Pro Bowl return specialist after WR Jamal Agnew was named to the 2023 Pro Bowl Games.
Before coming to Jacksonville, he most recently served in the same role for the Philadelphia Eagles from 2019-20. Prior to his time with the Eagles, Thompson coached in the collegiate ranks for 20 years.
In 2019, the Eagles had several standouts on special teams, including LS Rick Lovato who earned his first Pro Bowl selection in 2019 and K Jake Elliott who posted a career-high 84.6 field percentage. In addition, P Cameron Johnston produced top 10 finishes in gross (46.4, ninth) and net (42.3, eighth) punting averages.
Prior to the Eagles, Thompson served as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Lafayette College from 2017-18. In his first season with Lafayette, Thompson helped the defense average 15.8 points against per game in Patriot League play, down from 37.3 points against per game average surrendered in 2016. Additionally, the Leopards led the Patriot League in takeaways in 2017, after finishing last in the category in 2016.
Thompson had two coaching stints at Georgetown University, originally joining the Hoyas staff as a special teams coordinator/linebackers coach from 2006-11 and then returning from 2014-16 as the program's defensive coordinator/linebackers coach. Between stays at Georgetown, he served as the special teams coordinator and linebackers coach for Army from 2012-13.
A graduate of Assumption College, Thompson began his coaching career in 1998 as the offensive line/tight ends coach at Bowdoin College. He also coached at Holy Cross, Amherst College and Harvard University.
A native of Worcester, Mass., Thompson and his wife, Kristin, have one son, Luke and a daughter, Maddie.
