Newsstand: Tyrone Wheatley hired as NFL team's running backs coach
A former Michigan football legend and Jim Harbaugh assistant seems to be back on his way to the NFL ranks. According to multiple media reports, Tyrone Wheatly is expected to join the Denver Broncos with new head coach Nathaniel Hackett, where he will coach the running backs.
Wheatley spent the last three years at Morgan State leading the football program. He last coached in the NFL in 2017-18 when working with Hackett with the Jacksonville Jaguars. He and Hackett have a history that goes back to their time with the Buffalo Bills in addition to crossing paths at Syracuse from 2010-12.
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Wheatley was on Harbaugh’s first staff at Michigan in a homecoming gig of sorts. He was the team’s running backs coach in 2015-16 in a place where he made a name for himself. Wheatley was a star in Ann Arbor and parlayed his success into a first-round selection of the New York Giants in 1995.
His NFL career went 10 seasons, where he had 1,270 carries for 4,962 yards and 40 touchdowns in splitting time with the Giants and Oakland Raiders. Now, he is back coaching at the highest level of the game with a known friend and connection.
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