Vincent Wayne Amey (born January 9, 1975) is an American football coach and former defensive end, who is currently the defensive line coach at Arizona State. He played

college football College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. Unlike most ...

at Arizona State. He was drafted by the

Oakland Raiders The Oakland Raiders were a professional American football team that played in Oakland from its founding in 1960 to 1981 and again from 1995 to 2019 before relocating to the Las Vegas metropolitan area where they now play as the Las Vegas Raide ...

in the seventh round (230th overall) of the

1998 NFL Draft The 1998 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 18–19, 1998, at the Theater at M ...

. He then played for the Las Vegas Outlaws of the short-lived

XFL XFL may refer to: Sports * XFL (2001), a defunct American football league that played its only season in 2001 * XFL (2020), a professional American football league Vehicles * Bell XFL Airabonita, a 1940 U.S. Navy experimental interceptor aircra ...

. In 2019, he was the defensive line coach for the

San Diego Fleet The San Diego Fleet was a professional American football franchise based in San Diego, California, and one of the eight members of the Alliance of American Football (AAF). The league began play in February 2019, with the team playing its home game ...

of the

Alliance of American Football The Alliance of American Football (AAF) was a professional American football minor league. The AAF consisted of eight centrally owned and operated teams in the southern and western United States, seven of which were located in metropolitan are ...

(AAF) before joining the

Los Angeles Wildcats Los Angeles Wildcats is a name shared by several American football teams from Los Angeles: * Los Angeles Wildcats (AFL), a team that played in the American Football League of 1926 * Los Angeles Wildcats (Minor League AFL), a team that played in the ...

of the revived

the following year.

High school career

Amey attended James Logan High School in Union City, California. While at Logan, he was a three-year

letterman Letterman may refer to: * Letterman (sports), a classification of high school or college athlete in the United States People * David Letterman (born 1947), American television talk show host ** ''Late Night with David Letterman'', talk show that ...

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

as a

defensive tackle A defensive tackle (DT) is a position in American football that will typically line up on the line of scrimmage, opposite one of the offensive guards, however he may also line up opposite one of the tackles. Defensive tackles are typically the la ...

. He was an All-state selection as a

senior Senior (shortened as Sr.) means "the elder" in Latin and is often used as a suffix for the elder of two or more people in the same family with the same given name, usually a parent or grandparent. It may also refer to: * Senior (name), a surname ...

. He was named one of the "Top 20 Prospects" in the East Bay area. He also lettered in

track Track or Tracks may refer to: Routes or imprints * Ancient trackway, any track or trail whose origin is lost in antiquity * Animal track, imprints left on surfaces that an animal walks across * Desire path, a line worn by people taking the shorte ...

and basketball.

College career

Amey attended

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

where he was a four-year letterman for the Sun Devils. As a freshman in

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

he was one of nine true freshman to appear in a game. He appeared in eight games, recording six tackles. In

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

as a sophomore, he appeared in 10 games, starting at both left and right defensive tackle. As a junior in

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

, he recorded 20 tackles, one sack, two passes defended and one interception, returned for a touchdown. In

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

, he started 11 games at right defensive end. He recorded 26 tackles, one sack, and one pass broken up.

Professional career

Amey was drafted by the

in the seventh round (230th overall) of the

. He was released on August 30, during final cuts. However, he was re-signed on November 13, 1998. While with the Raiders, he appeared in four games, starting one. He spent the spring playing for the

Frankfurt Galaxy Two American football franchises have been referred to as the Frankfurt Galaxy: * Frankfurt Galaxy (NFL Europe), active in NFL Europe between 1991 and 2007 * Frankfurt Galaxy (ELF) The Frankfurt Galaxy is an American football team in Frankfurt, ...

NFL Europe NFL Europe League (simply called NFL Europe and known in its final season as NFL Europa League) was a professional American football league that functioned as the developmental minor league of the National Football League (NFL). Originally f ...

, where he won World Bowl '99. He was again cut during final cuts for the 1999 season. He was signed by the St. Louis Rams on July 24, 2000, and released on August 21, 2000. In 2001, he joined the Las Vegas Outlaws of the

. After the XFL folded, Amey joined the Los Angeles Avengers as an

offensive Offensive may refer to: * Offensive, the former name of the Dutch political party Socialist Alternative * Offensive (military), an attack * Offensive language ** Fighting words or insulting language, words that by their very utterance inflict inj ...

/ defensive lineman, of the Arena Football League. In

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

, he recorded one reception for nine yards and three tackles. In

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

, he recorded two receptions for 20 yards, as well as four tackles and one pass break-up. In

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

, he recorded one reception for 12 yards, along with three tackles, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery. In

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

he recorded eight tackles. In

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

, Amey signed with the

Arizona Rattlers The Arizona Rattlers are a professional indoor American football team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They are currently members of the Indoor Football League (IFL). The Rattlers were founded in 1992 as an expansion team in the Arena Football League ...

, and recorded one reception for three yards, and one carry for zero yards. He also recorded 13 tackles, one sack, one pass break-up and one fumble recovery. In

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

, he recorded 13 tackles, 1.5 sacks, and three pass break-ups. In

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

, he recorded 24 tackles, two sacks, and one fumble recovery. He also recorded one receptions for two yards and one touchdown.

Coaching career

In 2011, Amey served as the defensive line coach at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona. In 2012, he became a strength and conditioning coach at Arizona, in 2015, he became a football analyst for the Wildcats and in 2016, head coach Rich Rodriguez named him the Wildcats defensive line coach. After working with the

of the

in 2019 as defensive line coach, he joined the

of the

in the same position the next year. On November 30, 2022, Amey was hired by new Arizona State head coach

Kenny Dillingham Kenny Dillingham (born April 28, 1990) is an American football coach who is currently the head coach at Arizona State University. He previously served as the offensive coordinator at the University of Oregon, Florida State University, Auburn ...

to return to his alma mater as the defensive line coach.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Amey, Vincent 1975 births Living people American football defensive ends Arizona State Sun Devils football players Oakland Raiders players Frankfurt Galaxy players St. Louis Rams players Las Vegas Outlaws (XFL) players Los Angeles Avengers players Arizona Rattlers players Arizona Wildcats football coaches Los Angeles Wildcats coaches San Diego Fleet coaches Arizona State Sun Devils football coaches James Logan High School alumni Players of American football from Los Angeles Players of American football from Union City, California Coaches of American football from California