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Dolphins Have Their New Wide Receivers Coach

The Miami Dolphins have filled the opening created by the firing of Wes Welker

Alain Poupart

Detroit Lions wide receivers coach Robert Prince before the game against the Denver Broncos at Empower Field at Mile High in 2019.
Detroit Lions wide receivers coach Robert Prince before the game against the Denver Broncos at Empower Field at Mile High in 2019. / Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images
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The Miami Dolphins might have to look for a wide receivers coach for a second time this offseason.

There's still a ways to go before we reach that point, but new wide receivers coach Robert Prince did interview for the offensive coordinator position for the New Orleans Saints, as reported by NFL Network's Tom Pelissero on Saturday night.

The Saints hired Kellen Moore as their new head coach this past week and he's now in the process of putting together his staff. He does have a connection with Prince from their one season together (2022) with the Dallas Cowboys when Moore was OC and Prince was WR coach, and also from one season together at Boise State in 2011 when Moore was the starting quarterback and Prince was the wide receivers coach.

Prince has no prior working relationship with head coach Mike McDaniel, but he did work with Dolphins QB coach/pass game coordinator Darrell Bevell with the Detroit Lions in 2019-20 when Bevell was the team's offensive coordinator.

And after Bevell was named interim head coach to close out the 2020 season, Prince replaced him and served as acting head coach for one game when Bevell and other Lions coaches were out because of a COVID-19 outbreak (the Lions lost against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 47-7, after Matthew Stafford was injured in the first quarter).

Prince, who was born in Okinawa, Japan, has been with the Cowboys the past three seasons but found himself in limbo after head coach Mike McCarthy's contract ran out after the 2024 season.

Prior to coaching with the Cowboys, Prince spent one season in the same capacity with the Houston Texans and seven years with the Lions. Prince's first NFL coaching stops were with the Atlanta Falcons, Jacksonville Jaguars and Seattle Seahawks.

OTHER COORDINATOR INTERVIEWS

This isn't the first time this offseason that a Dolphins coach has interviewed for a coordinator position.

Outside linebackers coach Ryan Crow got interviews with both the Cowboys after they hired Brian Schottenheimer as their new head coach and with the New England Patriots where he would have been reunited with head coach Mike Vrabel, but the two teams went in another direction.

QB coach/pass game coordinator Darrell Bevell interviewed for the offensive coordinator position to be reunited with old Seattle Seahawks and now new Las Vegas Raiders head coach Pete Carroll, but the job was given instead to Chip Kelly.

Bevell also remains on staff, and now the Dolphins have added a senior pass game coordinator with the hiring of former Houston Texans offensive coordinator Bobby Slowik.

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Alain Poupart
ALAIN POUPART

Alain Poupart is the publisher/editor of Miami Dolphins On SI and host of the All Dolphins Podcast. Alain has covered the Miami Dolphins on a full-time basis since 1989 for various publications and media outlets, including Dolphin Digest, The Associated Press and the Dolphins team website. In addition to being a credentialed member of the Miami Dolphins press corps, Alain has covered three Super Bowls (for NFL.com, Football News and the Montreal Gazette), the annual NFL draft, the Senior Bowl, and the NFL Scouting Combine. During his almost 40 years in journalism, which began at the now-defunct Miami News, Alain has covered practically every sport at one time or another, from tennis to golf, baseball, basketball and everything in between. The career also included time as a copy editor, including work on several books, such as "Still Perfect," an inside look at the Miami Dolphins' 1972 perfect season. A native of Montreal, Canada, whose first language is French, Alain grew up a huge hockey fan but soon developed a love for all sports, including NFL football. He has lived in South Florida since the 1980s.

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