Kelsey Martinez became the first female coach in Raiders history when she joined Oakland’s strength and conditioning staff this offseason.
“She’s spectacular,” Jon Gruden said at the annual league meeting in Orlando. “Wait ’till you meet her.”
Back in 1990, Lee Brandon became the first female strength coach in NFL history when she left her job as Hofstra University head strength coach to join the New York Jets’ strength staff. Female coaches in the NFL have come few and far between since, whether they be on strength staffs or as position coaches, and only in recent years have women broken into the league.