Miami Dolphins defensive again Sam Madison provides the unfinished signal throughout a sport towards the Jacksonville Jaguars. (PHIL COALE, AP, PHIL COALE, AP)
The Miami Dolphins are bringing again the one of many workforce’s all-time greats, Sam Madison, as an assistant coach.
Madison will be part of new coach Mike McDaniel’s employees as cornerbacks coach/pass-game specialist, a league supply confirmed to the South Florida Solar Sentinel. The information was first reported by ESPN on Wednesday night time.
Madison was a four-time Professional Bowl choice for the Dolphins, enjoying in Miami from 1997 to 2005. He additionally performed three seasons with the New York Giants and received a Tremendous Bowl with them. Madison had 38 interceptions in his profession.
The previous Dolphins nice spent the previous three seasons as secondary/cornerbacks coach with the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. He received one other ring as a coach within the 2019 season, which ended with a Chiefs’ victory over the San Francisco 49ers within the Tremendous Bowl in Miami. McDaniel was on the 49ers’ teaching employees for that sport.
Previous to teaching within the NFL, Madison additionally was an assistant coach domestically in South Florida with highschool powerhouse St. Thomas Aquinas.
Madison takes the function that was initially being retained by Charles Burks, however Burks is departing for the same function with the Cincinnati Bengals, as ESPN reported and a league supply confirmed.
A ballhawk in his day, Madison will now coach a unit that's led by three-time Professional Bowl and one-time All-Professional Xavien Howard, who has 27 interceptions in his first six NFL seasons, together with a league-leading seven in 2018 and 10 in 2020. Howard and fellow cornerback Byron Jones are the Dolphins’ two highest-paid gamers. The place group additionally has 2020 first-round choose Noah Igbinoghene getting into his third season and could have offseason choices to make on restricted free agent Nik Needham and unrestricted free agent Justin Coleman.
With Madison changing Burks, the Dolphins nonetheless have a gap for a safeties or total defensive backs coach, which was vacated by the firing of Gerald Alexander.
McDaniel has labored shortly within the week and a half since touchdown his first head teaching job, almost filling out the entire major teaching employees and even bringing aboard his former Yale teammate, Chandler Henley, as assistant quarterbacks coach.
In a video launched by the Dolphins when McDaniel first arrived in Miami, McDaniel might be heard naming Miami legends of the previous as he walked via the hallways, seeing gamers’ photos on the wall. Madison was one of many former gamers named, together with working backs Larry Csonka and Ricky Williams.
Along with his 4 Professional Bowls (1999-2002), Madison earned two first-team All-Professional choices (1999, 2000) and two second-team All-Professional choices (1998, 2001). He led the league with seven interceptions in 1999 and had a career-high eight in 1998.
Madison and Patrick Surtain shaped an all-time nice cornerback mixture between the late Nineties and early 2000s. A Louisville alum, Madison was a second-round draft choose for the Dolphins in 1997.