Southeast Missouri State University Athletics

Muhammad-Lankford guided First-Team All-Ohio Valley Conference tailback Marquis Terry in 2017.

Terry had an outstanding season in his first year with the Redhawks rushing for over 1,000 yards. He ran for 1,076 yards and seven touchdowns on 239 carries and averaged 4.5 yards per attempt in 11 starts. Terry led the OVC with 97.8 yards per game and is the only player in the league with over 1,000 yards. He ranked 13th in the Football Championship Subdivision in total rushing yards and 16th in rushing yards per game. Terry ran for over 100 yards four times with a season-high 184 vs. Eastern Kentucky (Sept. 30). He also caught 20 passes for 109 yards out of the backfield.

In 2016, Muhammad-Lankford coached Second-Team All-OVC tailback Will Young.

Young was Southeast’s top rusher with 838 yards on 163 carries. He averaged 5.1 yards per attempt and scored six rushing touchdowns. Young ranked third in the conference in rushing with 76.2 yards per contest and had four 100-yard games.

Muhammad-Lankford joined Southeast’s staff on Feb. 2, 2016.

He previously worked as an offensive graduate assistant at Missouri, where he assisted then-wide receivers coach Pat Washington with all daily coaching responsibilities. Muhammad-Lankford helped create game plan ideas for weekly opponents and assisted with recruiting among other duties.

Before Missouri, Muhammad-Lankford helped coach the running backs at the University of Wyoming in the same capacity during the 2013 campaign. He coached the kick returners, coordinated game plans for the running backs, assisted with all special teams, created scouting reports and managed the scout teams during practices. In addition, Muhammad-Lankford was in charge of the running back meetings, drills and signaling to running backs on gameday.

A native of St. Joseph, Muhammad-Lankford played four years (2009-2012) at Wyoming. He was the Cowboys leading rusher before suffering a season-ending injury in 2011. A year later, Muhammad-Lankford led Wyoming with 106 tackles, 10 tackles for loss and four fumble recoveries as a linebacker his senior season.

Muhammad-Lankford received his undergraduate degree in communications at Wyoming in 2013 and is working on his master’s in positive coaching.