Carter Blount, who possesses 13 years of special teams experience at the the collegiate and professional levels, enters his second season with Georgia State as the Associate Head Coach, working with the special teams and as the director of quality control.Â
In his first season with the Panthers, Blount led sophomore kicker Liam Rickman to a record-setting 98-point-by-kicking season.Â
Blount joined the Georgia State staff in 2024 as assistant head coach and special teams coordinator.
He came to GSU after two seasons at Georgia Tech, where he served as senior special teams analyst, and one year in the National Football League as defensive quality control/assistant linebackers coach/game management/special teams assistant with the New York Giants.
Blount has been directly involved with special teams throughout his career, beginning as a graduate assistant at South Alabama in 2011. He went on to serve as special teams coordinator and cornerbacks coach at Birmingham Southern in 2014, followed by six years special teams analyst in the Southeastern Conference at Georgia (2015), LSU (2016), Alabama (2017) and Tennessee, where he held the title of senior special teams analyst from 2018-20. In addition to serving as a special teams analyst with the four SEC programs, he was elevated to special teams coordinator for bowl games with Georgia (2016 TaxSlayer Bowl win over Penn State) and LSU (2017 Citrus Bowl win over Louisville).
Blount began his coaching career as an undergraduate student at Alabama, first as a strength and conditioning intern in 2008, then as a special teams intern in 2009 before graduating from Alabama with a bachelor’s degree in education (exercise science) in 2010. He went on to serve as associate head strength and conditioning coach and assistant linebackers coach at Tuscaloosa County (Ala.) High School in 2010 before his three-year stint at South Alabama, where he earned a master’s in health education in 2013.
Blount was a part of two national championship teams at Alabama in 2009 and 2017.
