KNOXVILLE – Tennessee inside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator Kevin Sherrer is departing the University of Tennessee football program and joining the New York Giants’ staff.
Sherrer is reuniting with newly-hired Giants head coach Joe Judge.
Sherrer and Judge were together at Alabama from 2010-11. Judge served as Alabama’s special teams assistant, while Sherrer oversaw the Crimson Tide’s Director of Player Development.
Before his time at Alabama, Sherrer served as defensive coordinator at Hoover High School under head coach Rush Propst.
Propst discussed his former assistant joining the Giants on the show “Tennessee Two-A-Days.”
“I think Kevin is as solid as a football coach as it gets,” Propst said. “To me, the NFL maybe the best suit for him because he is even temperament. He is a guy that is not loud or boisterous at all, he is steady, and he really understands the game of football inside and out.
“He has cut his teeth, and reuniting with Jeremy (Pruitt) and the things that they have done, schematically he is going to be fine. He is not going to get too far away from fundamentals that makes the game what it is today. He is a great teacher of the game and will walk into the room from a standpoint that he is not going to be overbearing enough and to where it is going to be good for that room in an NFL environment. I think it’s a great move for him and I think he will be very successful, and in due time he will parlay that job into something even greater. He has all the goods.”
The entire interview can be listened to below or here. Philadelphia Eagles assistant quarterbacks coach Spencer Phillips also joined the show.
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