Jeff Nixon returns for his second season with the Dolphins after being named running backs coach on January 20, 2011.

In his first season with the team, Reggie Bush rushed for a career-high 1,086 yards and Daniel Thomas led all AFC rookie rushers with 581 yards.

Nixon came to the Dolphins after spending four seasons (2007-10) with the Philadelphia Eagles coaching staff. Nixon was an assistant coach with the Eagles working with the special teams and the offense, along with a focus on the running back position.

Nixon joined the Eagles coaching staff after serving as the running backs coach at Temple University in 2006. Following the season, he was named wide receivers coach at Temple before accepting his new post with the Eagles. From 2003-05, Nixon coached at Tennessee-Chattanooga, where he worked with the running backs, tight ends, and as a special teams coordinator and recruiting coordinator. From 1999-2002, he coached the running backs at Shippensburg. Nixon coached at Princeton in 1998 as the school’s running backs coach. Nixon began his coaching career in 1997 as a student assistant coach at Penn State.

Nixon played running back for West Virginia from 1993-94 before transferring to Penn State, where he earned spots on both the Dean’s List and the Big Ten Conference All-Academic Team.

Born in Rochester, Penn., and a product of State College (Penn.) High School, Nixon earned a degree in elementary education from Penn State in 1998 before receiving his master's degree in education administration from Shippensburg in 2003.

Nixon and his wife, Laura, have four children: William, twin daughters Faith and Hope, and Jasmine.