Wisconsin Badgers announce addition of assistant coach

Wisconsin football officially announced the addition of inside linebackers coach Bill Sheridan to the staff on social media Tuesday. The 63-year old assistant coach spent the past two seasons as the defensive line coach at Air Force.

The addition of Bill Sheridan continues a busy offseason of coaching staff additions for Wisconsin, which looks to build the best unit possible ahead of the 2022 season under head coach Paul Chryst.

After starting his coaching career at the high school level in 1981, Sheridan joined the college ranks at Michigan as a graduate assistant in 1985. He bounced around the Midwest for many years at Cincinnati, Michigan State, Notre Dame and a return to Michigan in a number of different defensive roles.

The Detroit, Michigan native then made the jump to the NFL, where he worked with the New York Giants and won a Super Bowl title. In his five seasons with the team from 2005-09, he worked his way up from linebackers coach to defensive coordinator. However, after one season he returned to a position coach role with the Miami Dolphins before joining the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a defensive coordinator again.

After one more NFL stop with the Detroit Lions, he worked two years at Boston College. He again got one season as defensive coordinator before moving to Air Force as a position assistant.

Wisconsin hires offensive coordinator

Former Big Ten star receiver Bobby Engram is on his way back to the conference, but not for the team he once suited up for. Engram has agreed to become the new offensive coordinator for the Wisconsin Badgers. The Wisconsin football account on Twitter announced the team’s new hire.

Engram played his college ball for the Badgers Big Ten East rival, the Penn State Nittany Lions. At Penn State, he was a three-time first-team all-Big Ten receiver and an AP all-American from 1993 –1995. Afterward, he would be selected by the Chicago Bears in the second round of the 1996 NFL draft.

Engram spent a total of 14 years in the NFL; his first five with the Bears. That was followed by an eight-year stay in Seattle and a limited final year with the Kansas City Chiefs to end his NFL career.

Since his retirement, Engram has worked exclusively in the NFL as a staffer or coach. His longest stay has been with the Baltimore Ravens, where he has held two different positions. From 2014 to 2018, he was the Ravens wide receiver coach. And his most recent title was tight end coach, a position he’s held since 2019.