Pierson Prioleau

COACHING HIGHLIGHTS

• Prioleau is in his third season coaching safeties at Virginia Tech.
• Virginia Tech Football head coach Brent Pry promoted Prioleau to serve as safeties coach in 2022.
• Prioleau tutored and mentored safety Chamarri Conner, who was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fourth round of the 2023 NFL Draft.
• He returned to Virginia Tech in 2019 as director of player development – defense.
• Prior to his return to Blacksburg, Prioleau served as defensive coordinator at Radford High School after his retirement from the NFL in 2011.
• He also worked as a health and physical education instructor at Belle Heth Elementary School in Radford starting in 2015. He owns a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from Virginia Tech.
• Prioleau participated in the NFL Business Management and Entrepreneurial Program at Northwestern University in 2006 and served a Bill Walsh Minority Coaching Fellowship with the St. Louis Rams in 1994.

PLAYING HIGHLIGHTS

• A first-team All-BIG EAST selection and a team captain for Frank Beamer as a senior in 1998, Prioleau played an integral role in helping Tech establish itself as a national football power in the 1990s. A four-year letterwinner for the Hokies, he enjoyed a 12-year NFL career and earned a Super Bowl XLIV ring with the New Orleans Saints.
• Inducted as part of the ACC Football Legends Class of 2012, Prioleau was a three-year starter for Beamer and defensive coordinator Bud Foster, totaling 237 career tackles and two touchdowns. He was named first-team All-Big East as a junior in 1997 and earned third-team All-America honors from The Sporting News. As a senior, he led a defense that was first in the BIG EAST in scoring defense, allowing just 12.9 points per game.
• A fourth-round selection of the San Francisco 49ers in the 1999 NFL Draft, Prioleau played in 160 career regular season games (50 starts) with San Francisco (1999-00), Buffalo (2001-04), Washington (2005-07), Jacksonville (2008) and New Orleans (2009-10), accumulating 446 total tackles (348 solo), one interception, one safety and four fumble recoveries.