Tyke Tolbert
 Coach Tolbert in 2020 | |
| New York Giants | |
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| Position: | Wide receivers coach |
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| Born: | September 15, 1967 Conroe, Texas |
| Career information | |
| High school: | Conroe (TX) |
| College: | LSU |
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Tyke Tolbert (born September 15, 1967) is an American football coach and former player who is the wide receivers coach for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). Tolbert previously served as wide receivers coach for the Arizona Cardinals, Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos.
College playing career[]
Tyke attended Louisiana State University (LSU), where he played wide receiver for the LSU Tigers football team.[1]
Coaching career[]
College Coaching[]
Tolbert started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at LSU in the spring of 1994 and quickly transferred to Northeast Louisiana to also work as a graduate assistant in the fall. He would go on to coach wide receivers at Ohio in the spring of 1995, before once again returning in the fall to Northeast Louisiana, where he assisted in coaching the team’s tight ends for three seasons. He would then go on to coach tight ends at Auburn in the 1998 season. Tyke would spend the next three years (1999-2001) as the wide receivers coach/recruiting coordinator at Louisiana-Lafayette, followed by a year serving as a tight ends coach/recruiting coordinator at Florida in 2002, before making the jump to the NFL the following season.
Start in the NFL[]
Tyke was a part of the NFL's Minority Internship Program with the Detroit Lions in training camp during 1997, and once again in 2001 with the Cardinals.
Arizona Cardinals[]
Tyke’s first official position in the NFL was as the wide receivers coach for the Arizona Cardinals in 2003. He would go on to help rookie wide receiver Anquan Boldin earn offensive rookie of the year.
Buffalo Bills[]
Tolbert would spend 6 years coaching wide receivers for the Bills.
Carolina Panthers[]
In 2010 Tolbert was the wide receivers coach for the Carolina Panthers.
Denver Broncos[]
Tolbert was the wide receivers coach for the Denver Broncos from 2011 until the end of the 2017 season. On February 7, 2016, Tolbert was part of the Broncos coaching staff that won Super Bowl 50. In the game, the Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers by a score of 24–10.[2]
New York Giants[]
On January 24, 2018, Tolbert joined the New York Giants to serve as wide receivers coach under new head coach Pat Shurmur.[3] Following the appointment of Joe Judge as head coach in January 2020, Tolbert was retained in his role.[4]
References[]
- ^ Buffalo Bills
- ^ "Super Bowl 50 - Denver Broncos vs. Carolina Panthers - February 7th, 2016". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
- ^ "Giants hiring Tyke Tolbert as wide receivers coach". profootballtalk. January 24, 2018.
- ^ "Giants' Joe Judge bringing Tyke Tolbert back as receivers coach". New York Post. January 11, 2020.
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