Defensive Coaching Staff
Weston Glaser
Defensive Coordinator - Linebackers
A youthful coach who already has coordinated a top Football Championship Subdivision defense, Weston Glaser is in his first season as Northwestern State’s defensive coordinator after joining the staff in January 2022, marking a return to the Southland Conference where he began his college football coaching career.
Glaser came to Natchitoches after a four-season run at Campbell in which he was both the Camels’ defensive coordinator and, in 2021, their assistant head coach.
A member of the 2019 American Football Coaches Association’s 35 Under 35 Coaches Leadership institute, Glaser coordinated a Camel defense that was the No. 2-ranked pass defense in its abbreviated four-game 2020 season. That season, Campbell faced four Football Bowl Subdivision teams – Georgia Southern, Coastal Carolina, Appalachian State and Wake Forest – and surrendered 185.2 passing yards per game.
During his Campbell tenure, Glaser’s defenses twice led the Big South in pass defense and helped the program post a 6-5 mark in 2019, marking the second of back-to-back winning seasons which had not been done at Campbell in the school’s modern era (dating to 2008).
As the interim defensive coordinator for the final three games of 2018, Glaser’s defense led FCS in fewest passing yards allowed (122.5) and ranked seventh nationally in pass efficiency defense (103.27).
Campbell defensive lineman Brevin Allen was named the 2021 Big South Defensive Player of the Year under Glaser’s tutelage, giving Glaser six all-conference and two all-American selections since the 2019 season.
A former Sam Houston quarterback, Glaser began his coaching career at his alma mater, spending three seasons (2010-13) on the Bearkat staff, helping Sam Houston post a 31-10 record, capture two Southland Conference titles and reach consecutive FCS National Championship Games.
The Waco, Texas native worked with UTEP’s linebackers and defensive backs from 2013-15 and served as an assistant pit crew coach for Hendrick Sports’ NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams, driven by Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. from August 2014-January 2015. During his time with Hendrick Motorsports, Glaser also worked for the Cleveland Browns scouting department.
Glaser continued his coaching career at Texas A&M in 2016 working with the defensive backs and spent the spring of 2018 as the defensive coordinator at Howard Payne University before moving to Campbell.
Glaser and his wife, Laura, have two sons, Deacon and Brooks.
De’Von Lockett
Assistant Head Coach / Defensive Backs / Facilities Liaison
The longest-tenured member of the Northwestern State football coaching staff, De’Von Lockett enters his 12th season on the Demons staff, tutoring the Demons’ cornerbacks.
Even in the unusual six-game spring season, Lockett’s tutelage paid dividends as junior William Hooper earned third-team All-Southland Conference honors, anchoring an NSU secondary that folded in several new faces, including All-Southland Conference safety PJ Herrington.
In 2019, Lockett helped develop sophomore Shemar Bartholomew into an honorable mention HERO Sports Sophomore All-American and a third-team All-Southland Conference selection while his group led the Southland Conference in fewest passing yards allowed per game (255.9).
In the 2018 season, Lockett’s cornerbacks played a pivotal role in the Purple Swarm defense ranking among the national leaders in turnovers and turnover margin in a season in which Lockett added the assistant head coach title to his resume.
As a freshman, Bartholomew snared a pair of interceptions against Sam Houston State, marking the second time in three seasons a Demons defensive back produced a multi-pick game against the high-powered Bearkats.
All told, NSU cornerbacks hauled in four interceptions and broke up 21 additional passes despite seeing three freshmen – Bartholomew, Hooper and Trey Williams – make their debuts throughout the season.
It continued Lockett’s legacy of productive corners in Purple and White.
With Lockett’s input, Ike Warren intercepted three passes in the 2016 and 2017 seasons despite fighting injuries in his sophomore season of 2016. In 2017, touted junior college transfer Rashaun Croney was limited to seven games because of injuries, but Lockett’s corners helped the Demons hold teams to almost 10 fewer yards passing per game from the season before.
In 2015, Lockett turned then-freshmen Warren and D’Ronne Littleton from signees into a strong, young starting duo on the outside of the Demons’ defense.
Despite losing an NFL signee (Imoan Claiborne) and a multi-year starter (Fred Thomas) on the corners, Lockett’s 2015 “Bad Boys” secondary helped the Demons allow less than one passing yard per game more than they did in 2014.
Led by Claiborne and emerging playmaker Adam Jones, the Demons snared 15 interceptions in 2014 after grabbing seven the previous season.
Under the tutelage of Lockett, a former standout receiver at Northwestern State, Jones made a seamless transition from linebacker to safety, resulting in Jones intercepting a team-high five passes. Claiborne, meanwhile, accounted for seven turnovers (four interceptions, three fumble recoveries) en route to earning All-American honors from the College Sporting News.
Lockett earned a promotion to secondary coach in 2014 after an outstanding job developing an NFL player and Super Bowl champion, Seattle’s Jeremy Lane, and shaping a cornerback stable that measured up as well as any in the FCS ranks.
In his most recent season coaching strictly cornerbacks, Lockett’s 2013 group helped the Demons’ Purple Swarm rank second in the Southland Conference in total defense.
Rejoining his alma mater’s coaching staff in time for the 2010 spring practice, Lockett’s impact was apparent that fall. The corners became a strong unit in the second half of the 2010 season. In 2011, Lockett’s cornerbacks sparkled throughout the season and Lane became the sixth-round pick of the Seattle Seahawks in the 2012 NFL Draft. The Demons were fourth in the rugged Southland Conference in total defense and led the league in red zone defense.
Lockett was the defensive backs coach in early 2010 at Bethel University before returning to his alma mater to join the Demons staff in time for 2010 spring practice. In the 2008 and 2009 seasons, Lockett was an assistant defensive backs coach and a quality control coach at Missouri Southern, where he also assisted with special teams.
Lockett coached at Bethel in McKenzie, Tenn., from 2005-06 as a graduate assistant, coaching receivers and assisting with special teams. Five of his receivers made all-conference. He assisted with coaching receivers in the first-ever NAIA Senior All-Star Game in Platte City, Mo.
From 2003-05, he coached football, basketball and track and field at his alma mater, Franklin Senior High School. He coached receivers and defensive backs, was special teams coordinator, head boys track coach and an assistant basketball coach.
He returned to FSHS in 2007-08 and helped coach the track team to the 2008 state indoor and outdoor championships. His college coaching career began in spring 2003 as a student assistant at NSU.
Lockett played in the National Indoor Football League in 2003-04 for the Houma Bayou Bucks after finishing as a four-year letterman for the Demons from 1999-2002, playing for three different head coaches (Sam Goodwin, Steve Roberts and Scott Stoker).
In his career, Lockett had 55 catches for 881 yards and 3 touchdowns while playing on FCS playoff teams in 2001 and 2002.
As a junior, with future NFL QB Craig Nall setting school passing records, he was third on the team with career-best totals of 31 catches for 463 yards, and had a key 48-yard catch along with a 9-yard TD grab in the Demons’ 27-24 win at TCU. His first collegiate catch was a 22-yarder at Central Florida as a sophomore in a hard-fought 19-7 loss.
He also competed in track and field for NSU. At Franklin Senior High School, he was a first-team All-District receiver and defensive back, and a second-team Coaches All-State defensive back, making 7 interceptions and 7 pass breakups as a senior.
He was also a state meet qualifier in track and field and was his team’s MVP.
Lockett is the son of the late Kenneth Lockett, a legendary track and field coach, and mother Melanie Charles and has five siblings. He is married to ShaLawnda, and they have four sons -- Seth, Dayson, Paxton and Titus.
Lockett graduated in psychology from NSU in 2002, then earned a master’s in education from Bethel in 2007.
Josh Jones
Assistant Coach - Safeties / Recruiting Coordinator
Josh Jones is in his first season on the Northwestern State staff, coaching safeties.
Jones comes to Natchitoches after a one-season stint at Arkansas-Pine Bluff where he quickly made his mark as the defensive passing game coordinator and defensive backs coach. Under Jones’ tutelage, Jalon Thigpen led the Southwestern Athletic Conference in passes defensed, earning first-team All-SWAC honors.
Thigpen’s development followed a trend that has typified Jones’ career.
In three seasons coaching cornerbacks at South Alabama (2018-20), Jones helped Darian Mills earn All-Sun Belt Conference in honors after ranking second in the conference in pass breakups. A year later, Travis Reed was an All-Sun Belt honoree after breaking up 10 passes and intercepting three others.
The play of Jones’ cornerbacks helped the Jaguars post a top-50 performance nationally in passing defense.
Jones followed head coach Steve Campbell to South Alabama after spending two seasons with Campbell at Central Arkansas.
While on UCA’s staff, Jones helped the Bears produced a 20-5 overall record and a 17-1 conference mark, capturing the 2017 Southland Conference title.
In each of his two seasons with the Bears, Jones produced an All-American as Tyler Williams garnered the honor in 2016 and Tremon Smith did so in 2017. Smith was a two-time, first-team All-Southland Conference selection and is entering his fourth season in the NFL. Williams was a first-team All-SLC pick in 2016 before signing with the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent.
Jones spent the 2015 season coaching cornerbacks at Henderson State, molding a defense that led all divisions of the NCAA with 29 interceptions. Tavares Garner earned first-team All-Great American Conference notoriety as the Reddies went 11-2 and reached the D-II playoffs.
Before joining the Henderson State staff, Jones was a graduate assistant at Troy, Missouri Western State and Arkansas Tech.
As a player, Jones was an All-American at both Minnesota State-Moorhead and Harding University. While at Harding, he was invited to play in the Cactus Bowl (D-II Senior All-Star Game) and was the Little Rock Touchdown Club Player of the Year.
At Minnesota State-Moorhead, Jones broke the school record for interceptions with 10 as a sophomore, tying him for second nationally. He also holds MSU-Moorhead’s school record for longest punt return touchdown at 94 yards.
A 2013 professional studies graduate of Arkansas Tech, Jones played one season with the Utah Blaze of the Arena Football League and one with the Green Bay Blizzard of the Indoor Football League, helping the Blizzard reach the conference championship game.
Jordan Hopkins
Assistant Coach - Defensive Line
Derrick Berry
Administrative Graduate Assistant - Linebackers