David Merritt, an American football coach with the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League and a former linebacker who served as the Arizona Cardinals’ defensive backs coach, was born on September 8, 1971. (NFL). In the seventh round of the 1993 NFL Draft, he was selected by the Miami Dolphins. At North Carolina State, he participated in college football.

Merritt has coached for the New York Jets, the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, Virginia Military Institute, and the Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals in addition to having played for them.

Merritt became a defensive assistant and linebackers coach with the New York Jets in 2001.
In 2004, the New York Giants recruited Merritt to work as a defensive assistant and quality control coach. He received a promotion to secondary and safeties coach in 2006. With the Giants, Merritt won Super Bowls XLII and XLVI, both times defeating the New England Patriots.

Merritt was appointed the new defensive backs coach for the Arizona Cardinals on February 21, 2018.

Merritt joined the Kansas City Chiefs on February 8 as their new defensive backs coach. When the Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV, Merritt received his third Super Bowl ring.

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