East Tennessee State University

Shaedon Meadors joined ETSU Head Coach Will Healy's coaching staff in early 2026 as the program's new wide receivers coach. Meadors joined the Bucs after spending the last two seasons as an assistant coach at SoCon rival Mercer. 

During his time in Macon, Meadors coached the Bears' tight end group. Mercer’s corps of tight ends thrived in the two seasons under Meadors’s watch, amassing 67 combined catches while also playing a pivotal blocking role for a rushing offense that averaged 167.0 yards an outing across the 26-game span. Malik Simmons picked up All-Southern Conference accolades following a 2025 campaign that produced 129 receiving yards and four touchdowns on 11 catches.

Meadors came to Mercer after a two-year stint as the wide receivers coach at Wingate. Meadors provided the tutelage for a unit at Wingate that ranked among the nation’s best as the Bulldogs boasted NCAA Division II’s 39th-best passing offense (233.1 yards/game) in 2023 on the way to recording eight victories. Wingate’s wide receivers accounted for 16 touchdowns on the campaign, while redshirt sophomore Tremel Jones picked up All-South Atlantic Conference accolades after posting nearly 78 receiving yards per game, including a trio of 100+-yard performances.
 
Prior to his move to southern North Carolina, Meadors served a stint as an assistant coach for three seasons (2019-21) at Clover High School in northwest South Carolina where he assembled a wide receivers unit that keyed the Blue Eagles to 20 victories across three seasons, including a pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign. In just his first season at the prep institution, Clover boasted a passing offense that tacked up 288 yards per game and finished a 12-win campaign with 51 touchdown receptions.
 
An outstanding pass catcher at Appalachian State, Meadors closed out his career in Boone, N.C., with 82 receptions for 1,442 yards and eight touchdowns. Despite missing the first five games of his collegiate career with an illness, the Duncan, S.C., native still tacked up 15 catches and 287 yards, including a 4-catch, 90-yard performance in his collegiate debut against Liberty. He raked in All-Sun Belt Conference laurels as a junior after hauling in 45 catches for 716 yards and two touchdowns. He finished out his career as a graduate transfer at Illinois.
 
Meadors earned his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, government and justice studies from Appalachian State in 2017. He earned his master's degree in sports management at Illinois in 2018. Meadors and his wife, Cierra, have a daughter, Layken.