Report: Former Bengals Defensive Coordinator Mike Zimmer Taking Same Role At Colorado Under Deion Sanders
CINCINNATI — Former Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer is reportedly joining Colorado in the same role. According to Larry Fitzgerald Sr., Zimmer is Deion Sanders's new defensive coordinator.
Zimmer was on staff as an analyst at Jackson State last year, helping the Tigers go 12-0 for the first time in school history.
“He’s asked me about it a few times,” Zimmer said at the time of his hiring at JSU. “The pay’s not good. But I do love Deion, and I’d do anything for him. He can open up so many doors for these young men but I’m extremely impressed with the way he’s teaching them about life and not just football, and taking care of them, and talking to them about the real things that go on in the world and not the fluff stuff.”
The two first sparked a relationship in 1995 when the former All-Pro cornerback had just come over to Dallas from the San Francisco 49ers.
Zimmer was entering his second season as an NFL coach, having been promoted from a defensive assistant the previous season to the Cowboys' defensive backs coach.
Since then, Zimmer became the DC in Cincinnati from 2008-13, before heading to Minnesota as the Vikings head coach from 2014-21.
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