Name: David Lee
Title: Quarterbacks
College: Vanderbilt
NFL: Fifth Season
Dolphins: First Season

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David Lee was named the Dolphins’ quarterbacks coach on January 10, 2008. He comes to the team with four years of experience at the NFL level, all with the Dallas Cowboys from 2003-06. In 2007, Lee ran the offense and tutored the quarterbacks at the University of Arkansas when the team posted a regular season record of 8-4 and went on to appear in the Cotton Bowl. Following the 2007 season, he had assumed a similar role at Ole Miss under Head Coach Houston Nutt before joining the Dolphins’ staff.

With the Cowboys, Lee started as the team’s offensive quality control coach and added the title of quarterbacks coach in 2005. In Lee’s four years in Dallas, three different Cowboys quarterbacks threw for 3,000 yards in a single season, while a fourth, Tony Romo, went from being an undrafted college free agent in 2003 to a starter in 2006.

Last year, Lee presided over an Arkansas Razorbacks’ offense that averaged 38.8 points per game and 457.4 yards per contest in the regular season, figures that ranked 12th and 18th nationally, respectively, and were school records. The running game in 2007 ranked fourth nationally, as it averaged 286.5 yards an outing and 6.0-yards per attempt led by Darren McFadden, who amassed 1,830 yards and 16 touchdowns on 325 attempts. As a team, Arkansas threw for 1,928 yards with 24 touchdown passes and only 10 interceptions. The 2007 season marked Lee’s third stint at Arkansas, having also coached the fullbacks and quarterbacks there from 1984-88 and the quarterbacks from 2001-02.

Overall, Lee possesses 29 years of experience at the collegiate level, including five as a head coach, when he served in that role at Texas-El Paso from 1989-93. In Lee’s collegiate coaching career, nine of his former quarterbacks were either drafted or signed as free agents in the NFL following their collegiate stints.

Lee got his start in the coaching profession tutoring the quarterbacks and receivers at Tennessee-Martin from 1975-76. A one-year stint as quarterbacks coach at Vanderbilt (1977) preceded a five-year run in the same role at Ole Miss, from 1978-82. He moved on to head up the offense at New Mexico in 1983 before embarking on his initial stint at Arkansas. Over that five-year period with the Razorbacks (1984-1988), Arkansas compiled a composite record of 45-15-1 and appeared in a bowl game all five years, including an Orange Bowl and a Cotton Bowl. That success helped catapult him to the head coaching position at Texas-El Paso in 1989. After five seasons in that post, he became offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Rice University from 1994-2000. He returned to Arkansas in 2001, where for two years Lee tutored future NFL players Matt Jones and Tarvaris Jackson during their first two collegiate seasons, before taking on his first NFL coaching role, with the Cowboys in 2003.

A three-year letterman as a quarterback at Vanderbilt (1972-74), Lee was the team captain and the most valuable player as a senior in 1974 when he led the Southeastern Conference in passing. That same year, he helped the Commodores to a record of 7-3-2, including a 24-10 upset win over No. 5-ranked Florida. In Lee’s final two years there, Dolphins Executive Vice President of Football Operations Bill Parcells served as Vanderbilt’s defensive coordinator. Lee earned his degree in history from Vanderbilt. A native of Dexter, Mo., he attended Woodham High School in Pensacola, Fla. Lee and his wife, Lynne, have two daughters, Dana and Shannon, and two sons, Brian and Jordan.