Name: George DeLeone
Title: Tight Ends
College: Connecticut
NFL: Second Season
Dolphins: First Season

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George DeLeone, a veteran of 38 seasons as a football coach, primarily in the collegiate ranks and in a myriad of roles, was named the Dolphins’ tight ends coach on January 28, 2008.

Most recently, DeLeone was the offensive coordinator at Temple University the past two seasons (2006-07), while also tutoring the interior offensive linemen in 2007 and the quarterbacks in 2006. Prior to that, he was the run game coordinator/offensive line coach at the University of Mississippi in 2005. DeLeone’s one year of NFL experience came in 1997 when he coached the offensive line with San Diego Chargers.

A bulk of his coaching career has been spent at Syracuse University, where he served as an assistant from 1985-96 and 1998-2004. During that 19-year span he served in a variety of roles including offensive line coach (1985-86, 2000-04), offensive coordinator (1987-96), defensive coordinator (1998) and quarterbacks coach (1999). He also held the title of associate head coach from 1998-2004, all while Dolphins’ defensive coordinator Paul Pasqualoni was the head coach there. During DeLeone’s time tutoring the offensive line, five of his pupils were drafted into the NFL. In 10 years as offensive coordinator, five of his players were first-team All-America selections. In his 19 years with the Orange, the team produced 15 winning records and appeared in 13 bowl games.

DeLeone began his coaching career at Southern Connecticut State in 1970 as offensive line coach. After six years in that post he was promoted to head coach in 1976 and served four years in that role. In 1980, he moved on to Rutgers as an assistant where he was the Scarlet Knights’ defensive line coach (1980), defensive coordinator (1981-82) and offensive line/special teams coach (1983). In DeLeone’s three years coaching on the defensive side of the ball at Rutgers, the team allowed an average of just 19.5 points per game over that 33-game span. He was appointed offensive coordinator at Holy Cross in 1984 and in his lone year at the school, running back Gil Fenerty rushed for 1,211 yards, a school single-season record at the time and now the third-highest figure.

A native of New Haven, Conn., DeLeone earned his bachelor’s degree in physical education from the University of Connecticut and his master’s in education from Southern Connecticut State. He and his wife, Roberta, have two sons, Andy, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and Mark, a student at the University of Iowa.