Dolphins assistant coach will be OC in East-West Shrine Bowl

Three Dolphins assistant coaches will be on the coaching staffs at the 2025 East-West Shrine Bowl.

Miami Dolphins offensive assistant Parks Frazier will serve as an offensive coordinator for the East Team in the 2025 East-West Shrine Bowl, the game announced Thursday.

Frazier, 33, spent three seasons as an assistant on the Indianapolis Colts’ coaching staff and the 2023 season with the Carolina Panthers as a passing game coordinator. The Dolphins added Frazier to their coaching staff in 2024.

In addition to Frazier, Dolphins assistant defensive line coach Kynjee Cotton will serve as the defensive line coach of the East Team, and Dolphins offensive assistant Roman Sapolu will be the offensive line coach for the West Team.

The Shrine Bowl is one of a few collegiate all-star games that serve as an opportunity for NFL coaches and scouts to get a closer look at players who are eligible to be picked in the draft. While not as prestigious and talent-rich as the Senior Bowl, recent alumni of the Shrine Bowl include three of the Dolphins’ 2024 draft picks: Mohamed Kamara, Malik Washington, and Tahj Washington.

Frazier and Cotton will work with Atlanta Falcons special teams coordinator Marquice Williams, who is set to be the head coach of the East Team. The West Team head coach is New York Giants defensive coordinator Shane Bowen.

The 2025 East-West Shrine Bowl will be held at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Thursday, Jan. 30.

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LSU reportedly expected to hire Kennesaw State defensive ends coach as analyst

Kynjee Cotton will likely replace the role Gerald Chatman held last season.

The Tigers are dipping into the Football Championship Subdivision ranks to replace the role previously occupied by [autotag]Gerald Chatman[/autotag].

According to On3’s Matt Zenitz, LSU is hiring Kennesaw State defensive ends coach [autotag]Kynjee Cotton[/autotag] as an analyst. Cotton spent the 2022 season with the Owls after previous defensive ends coach stints at Samford and West Georgia.

Cotton has also served as a quality control coach at North Carolina, a defensive line coach at Birmingham Southern and a graduate assistant at UAB following a stint as a strength and conditioning intern at Alabama.

He’s a former standout defensive lineman at Alabama State, earning all-conference honors while in college.

Chatman previously served as an analyst working with the defensive line before being serving as the interim defensive line coach this spring when [autotag]Jamar Cain[/autotag] left for the NFL. Chatman was later hired as the defensive line coach at Tulane.

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