Name: Kacy Rodgers
Title: Defensive Line
College: Tennessee
NFL: Sixth Season
Dolphins: First Season

Kacy Rodgers was named the Dolphins’ defensive line coach on January 23, 2008 after spending the last five years with the Dallas Cowboys, including the last three seasons tutoring that team’s defensive line.

Rodgers’ first two years with the Cowboys (2003-04) were spent coaching the club’s defensive tackles. Under Rodgers, defensive tackle La’Roi Glover was selected to the Pro Bowl each year from 2003-05. In four of Rodgers’ five seasons with Dallas, the team ranked in the top ten in the NFL in rush defense, including a No. 6 finish in 2007 when they allowed an average of just 94.6 yards rushing per game.

Before entering the NFL ranks, Rodgers was an assistant at the collegiate level, including posts at Tennessee-Martin (1994-97), Louisiana-Monroe (1998), Middle Tennessee State (1999-2001) and Arkansas (2002). He tutored the defensive line at all four stops, while having also been assistant head coach at Tennessee-Martin (1997) and Middle Tennessee (2000-01).

Rodgers was a four-year letterman at the University of Tennessee (1988-91) where he played linebacker and defensive end on teams that won a pair of Southeastern Conference championships (1990, 1991) and appeared in three New Year’s Day bowl games. He earned his degree in political science from the school in 1993. Following his playing career he went to training camp with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1992 as a college free agent. He also played with the Shreveport Pirates of the Canadian League in 1994. Rodgers is a native of Humboldt, Tennessee where he starred at Humboldt High School. He and his wife, Marcella, have a son, Kacy II.