Robert Prince joined the Miami Dolphins as wide receivers coach in 2025.

Robert Prince joined the Miami Dolphins as wide receivers coach in 2025.

The 2025 season marks Prince's 37th as a coach and 18th in the NFL. Along with his NFL experience, Prince also coached at the collegiate level for 17 years and spent two years in the Japanese X League.

Prior to joining Miami, Prince spent three seasons as the wide receivers coach for the Dallas Cowboys (2022-24), where he helped CeeDee Lamb earn three consecutive Pro Bowl selections during that time. Lamb was also named first-team All-Pro in 2023.

In 2021, Prince served as wide receivers coach for the Houston Texans and mentored Brandin Cooks, who recorded a career-high 90 receptions for 1,037 yards and six touchdowns.

Prince spent seven seasons as the wide receivers coach with the Detroit Lions (2014-20), during which the Lions receivers ranked fourth in the NFL in receiving yards (19,749) and seventh in both receptions (1,484) and receiving touchdowns (123). Prince worked with Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson who earned Pro Bowl nods in each of their two seasons together (2014-15). Prince also mentored Kenny Golladay and Golden Tate who each earned Pro Bowl selections in 2019 and 2014, respectively. Johnson and Tate became the sixth duo in Lions history to reach 1,000 yards in the same season in 2014.

In his second stint at Boise State (2011-13), Prince served as wide receivers coach for one season (2011) and offensive coordinator for two seasons (2012-13). As offensive coordinator, Prince oversaw an offense in 2012 that led the team to an 11-2 record and had five offensive players that earned All-Mountain West honors including offensive linemen Matt Paradis and Charles Leno; wide receiver Matt Miller and running back D.J. Harper.

Prior to his return to Boise State, Prince spent one season at Colorado (2010) as pass game coordinator and wide receivers coach.

Prince's NFL resume also includes stops in Seattle as wide receivers coach (2009), Jacksonville as assistant wide receivers coach (2007-08).

His NFL coaching debut came with the Atlanta Falcons, where he served as an offensive assistant (2004-05) and as assistant quarterbacks coach (2006). As assistant quarterbacks coach, he worked with quarterback Michael Vick who totaled 2,474 passing yards and 1,039 rushing yards in 2006. Vick became the first quarterback to ever rush for more than 1,000 yards in a single season and tied an NFL record for yards per rushing attempt with 8.4 (Beattie Feathers, 1934).

In his first two seasons with the Falcons, Prince primarily worked with running backs and tight ends. He helped the Falcons lead the NFL in rushing yards and yards per carry for consecutive seasons in 2004 (2,672 yards, 5.1 yards per carry) and 2005 (2,546 yards, 4.8 yards per carry).

Before his first full-time role with Atlanta, Prince also held internships with San Francisco (2000, 2002) and the Chargers (2001).

From 2001-03, Prince coached in his first stint at Boise State. He served as wide receivers coach from 2001-02 before being promoted to pass game coordinator in 2003.

He joined Portland State as wide receivers coach in 1998 and was promoted to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach and served in that capacity for two seasons (1999-2000).

In 1996, Prince and his family traveled overseas to Japan, where he accepted the offensive coordinator role and coached the Recruit Seagulls of the Japanese X-League for two seasons (1996-97). The Seagulls won the Tokyo Super Bowl and the X-League national championship in his first season.

In his previous collegiate coaching stops, he served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Fort Lewis College (1994-95), wide receivers coach at Sacramento State (1992-93) and three graduate assistant seasons at Montana State (1991) and his alma mater, Humboldt State (1989-90).

His first coaching role was as a track and field coach at Eureka High School in California.

Prince played wide receiver at San Bernardino Valley College (1983-84) and Humboldt State (1985-86). He graduated from Humboldt State in 1990 with a degree with mathematics before going on to earn his master's degree in physical education from the university in 1992. In 2025, he was inducted into the California Community College Hall of Fame.

Prince was born in Okinawa, Japan, where he lived until moving to San Bernardino, Calif. when he was 7 years old. He graduated from San Gorgonio High School, where he lettered in football and track. Prince competes in USATF events and placed first in the 60-meter hurdles at the 2024 USATF Masters Indoor Championships. He and his wife, Susan, have three children: Hayden, Jasmin and Tyson.