Giants Hire Tim Kelly as New Tight Ends Coach
New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll wasted no time filling his staff's tight ends coach role after losing Andy Bischoff this week to the Los Angeles Chargers.
The team announced that Daboll has hired Tim Kelly, last with the Tennessee Titans, where he was their passing game coordinator in 2022 and their offensive coordinator in 2023, to fill the role.
Before his stint with the Titans, Kelly was with the Texans, where he was hired in 2014 as an offensive quality control coach with the Houston Texans. After two seasons, Kelly received added duties as the Texans' assistant offensive line coach in 2016. In 2017 and 2018, he was named the tight ends coach.
In 2019, Kelly was named offensive coordinator, a role he held with Houston and Tennessee. But with Houston, he also gained the added responsibility of coaching the team's quarterbacks, which he did in 2020 before having that role taken away the following season.
Kelly played college ball at Eastern Illinois, where he made 48 career starts as a defensive lineman. He was voted a team captain in 2007 and was awarded academic All-district honors by ESPN The Magazine before he graduated in 2008.
He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant for Illinois Wesleyan in 2008, where he worked with defensive linemen. After two years there, he went to Minnesota State-Moorhead, where he was the defensive line coach and defensive coordinator during his lone season there.
Kelly switched to the offensive side of the ball when he made the leap to the NFL with Houston in 2014.
Kelly's brother, Dennis, an offensive tackle, was a fifth-round draft pick by the Philadelphia Eagles in 2012.
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