Diamond Weaver, a former NFL player who also has professional coaching experience, is on the move.
Sources tell FootballScoop that Weaver, a former standout-player at Akron, is joining the defensive staff at Fordham University, a Football Championship Subdivision program, after spending the 2025 season at the University of Albany.
Per sources, Weaver will coach cornerbacks for the Rams, who saw coach Joe Conlin make a number of staff changes following a 1-11 2025 campaign.
For Weaver, it's another coaching stop in New York. In addition to this past season at Albany and this upcoming year at Fordham, Weaver previously coached at Rochester Community and Technical College, NCAA Division II program Pace College as well as at FCS program Stony Brook.
His professional coaching experience came with the Green Bay Blizzard of the Indoor Football League during the past decade.
As a player, following his collegiate career that opened in the junior college ranks and concluded at Akron, Weaver made professional rosters in the NFL, the Canadian Football League (CFL) and Arena Football League, in addition to the IFL.
Fordham is scheduled to open its 2026 season at home against Colgate in a Week Zero game on Aug. 29. The contest also kicks off the Rams' play in Patriot League action.
Weaver will try to help the Fordham program get back to the winning ways it experienced earlier this decade under Conlin, who guided the Rams to winning seasons in 2021, '22 and '23. The Rams dipped to a 3-21 mark across the past two seasons.