Colorado University Athletics
Football
Nov 1 (Sat)
5:00 p.m.
- Title:
- Offensive Graduate Assistant Coach
- Email:
- cordae.hankton@colorado.edu
Cordae Hankton is in his first year on the Colorado football staff, having joined the program in February 2019 as a graduate assistant
He joined CU from the high school ranks, having served as the defensive coordinator for John Ehret High School in Marrero, La., for the 2018 season. If that high school rings familiar to CU fans, it has produced four Buffaloes, including Kordell Stewart.  He previous was an assistant for six seasons (2012-17) at his alma mater, Archbishop Rummel High School in New Orleans, where he coached the linebackers. Rummel won back-to-back state championships in 2015 and 2016, reaching as high as the No. 13 team in the nation in 2015 as ranked by MaxPreps.
He played defensive back (safety) at Jackson State, earning two letters for the 2006 and 2007 seasons.
After his playing days at JSU, he followed in the footsteps of his parents, who were both police officers, working on the New Orleans police force with them for five years (2009-13); one of the few, if not only, father-mother-son trio working on a police force simultaneously in the nation. After he left the police force, he returned to school in New Orleans, graduating from Southern University earning his degree in Social Work.
He was born on September 6, 1988 in New Orleans, La., and graduated from Archbishop Rummel, where he lettered in football and basketball. His hobbies cooking: the staff refers to him as the “resident” chef (his specialties include jambalaya, gumbo and spaghetti); he also enjoys playing golf, spending time with his family and enjoying his three nephews.  His older brother by some seven years, Cortez, is the receivers coach at the University of Georgia. (His first name is pronounced cor-day.)
