The Bills have hired Jeff Rodgers to be Buffalo's next special teams coordinator, the team announced Saturday.
Rodgers comes most recently from the Arizona Cardinals where he was their assistant head coach and special teams coordinator. He started with the Cardinals in 2018 as their special teams coordinator and added his additional title in 2019. Before Arizona, Rodgers was the Chicago Bears' special teams coordinator for three seasons, 2015-17.
This is just a snippet of Rodgers' coaching history. He comes to the Bills with 25 years of coaching experience and 22 years specifically in special teams in the NFL. Rodgers enters his 23rd season coaching in the league as he joins head coach Joe Brady's new staff.
Before the Cardinals and Bears, he also had stops at Denver, Carolina and San Francisco as well.
Prior to the NFL, he spent two seasons as a graduate assistant at the University of Arizona, working with the secondary and linebackers. From there, he joined the 49ers staff as their special teams quality control coach in 2003 and was promoted to assistant special teams coach from 2005-07.
Rodgers jumped back to the collegiate level as Kansas State's special teams coordinator in 2008 and went back to the NFL. He was the Panthers' special teams assistant in 2009 and elevated to special teams coordinator in 2010. Rodgers was with the Broncos from 2011-14 in the same role he held previously before going to Chicago.
Rodgers has experience working with kicker Matt Prater as well. He coached Prater when he was with the Cardinals and Broncos. Prater set a franchise single-season record with nine field goals of 50-plus yards in 2023 and an NFL single-season record of six, 55-plus yard field goals as well. He remains the leader in Arizona history for number of field goals of 50 yards or longer (22) and ranks first in franchise history for longest field goal (62 yards).
Rodgers is an Austin, Tex. Native and attended North Texas where he played linebacker from 1996-2000.
