Otha Yarborough joined the Amherst College football coaching staff in 2026. Yarborough coaches the Mammoths’ running backs.
Yarborough most recently served as the offensive quality control coach at the College of William & Mary in 2025. Prior to William & Mary, Yarborough spent the 2024 season at Misericordia University as the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach.
In 2022 and 2023, Yarborough coached the wide receivers and tight ends at Colby College while also serving as the Mules’ video coordinator and academic liaison. Yarborough previously spent the 2021 season at Bates College, coaching the linebackers and defensive line and serving as an academic liaison. He also served as a diversity, equity and inclusion liaison for the athletics department at Bates.
Yarborough coached the quarterbacks at Clark Atlanta University in 2019. He began his coaching career as a student assistant at Georgia State University from 2015 to 2018, working across recruiting, video and academics.
A 2018 graduate of Georgia State, Yarborough earned a bachelor’s degree in African American studies.
