The new TE's coach. Was the RB's coach for Miami for 5 years. Worked under Andy Reid with the Eagles as well.
A running back at West Virginia (1993-94) and Penn State (1996), Nixon served as a student assistant for one season on Joe Paterno's staff after graduation.
Nixon then spent one year as the running backs coach at Princeton, followed by four seasons under the same title at Shippensburg, where he would earn his master's degree in elementary administration.
From 2003-05, Nixon worked at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as the team's running backs coach, tight ends coach, and special teams coordinator.
Following one season of coaching running backs and wide receivers at Temple, Nixon earned his first NFL gig as special teams quality control coach on Andy Reid's staff with the Philadelphia Eagles. He worked under special teams coordinators Rory Segrest (2007-09) and Bobby April (2010).
Nixon served in that role for four seasons until joining the Dolphins in January 2011 in his running backs coach position at the NFL level.
[ Edited by Phoenix49ers on Jan 26, 2016 at 3:22 PM ]