Lawrence Dawsey - Football Coach - Jacksonville State University Athletics

Lawrence Dawsey

Title:
Wide Receivers
Email:
ldawsey@jsu.edu

Lawrence Dawsey was hired as the wide receivers coach before the 2025 season.

In his first season with the Gamecocks, Dawsey mentored Deondre Johnson who led Jax State with 724 yards and six touchdowns on 30 catches and earned honorable mention All-Conference USA honors. Brock Rechsteiner had a career-high 36 catches for 383 yards and five touchdowns during the 2025 season.

The Dothan native came back to Alabama after spending three seasons at Appalachian State as the wide receivers coach, which included a Sun Belt East Division title in 2023. In 2024, the Mountaineers had two All-Sun Belt receivers in first teamer Kaedin Robinson and third teamer Makai Jackson. Robinson averaged 93.3 yards per game before a season-ending injury.

Prior to working as an analyst at Texas A&M for two seasons, Dawsey was on staff at Florida State for 10 years working with receivers and was elevated to co-offensive coordinator by the end of his tenure. This included working as the pass game coordinator and receivers coach during the Seminoles' 2013 national championship season.

Three times, Dawsey has been recognized as one of the top 10 recruiters in the ACC by Rivals and was the 2011 ACC Recruiter of the Year by SI.com.

Dawsey's coaching career started at the high school level in Tampa before joining Nick Saban's LSU staff as a graduate assistant during the 2003 national championship season before spending the next three seasons at USF as receivers coach.

He was drafted in the third round of the 1991 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after an All-American career at Florida State. Dawsey was the United Press International's NFC Rookie of the Year in 1991 when he recorded 818 yards on 55 catches.