Tyke Tolbert joined the Miami Dolphins as wide receivers coach in 2026. The 2026 season marks Tolbert's 33rd year coaching and 24th in the NFL. He has been on the coaching staff of two conference championship teams (2013 and 2015) and won Super Bowl 50 with the Denver Broncos.

Tyke Tolbert joined the Miami Dolphins as wide receivers coach in 2026. The 2026 season marks Tolbert's 33rd year coaching and 24th in the NFL. He has been on the coaching staff of two conference championship teams (2013 and 2015) and won Super Bowl 50 with the Denver Broncos.

Tolbert has helped his receivers earn a combined eight Pro Bowl selections – Anquan Boldin (2003), Demaryius Thomas (2012-16) and Emmanuel Sanders (2014, 2016). He has also coached nine different wide receivers to 17 total 1,000-yard seasons.

Prior to joining the Dolphins, Tolbert spent two seasons (2024-25) as wide receivers coach with the Tennessee Titans. In 2025, Tolbert oversaw the development of two of the top rookie wideouts in the league as Elic Ayomanor (ninth) and Chimere Dike (10th) finished in the top 10 in receiving yards among first-year wide receivers.

Ayomanor played in 16 games with 14 starts and became the sixth rookie in Titans history to reach 40 receptions (41), 500 receiving yards (515) and four receiving touchdowns. Dike, who played in all 17 games with 10 starts at receiver, hauled in 48 receptions, 423 receiving yards and four touchdowns. They became the third rookie wide receiver duo in NFL history to each have at least 40 receptions, 400 receiving yards and four touchdowns in a season. Dike also handled the majority of the team's kickoff and punt returns. He set the all-time NFL record for all-purpose yards in a rookie season, totaling 2,427 all-purpose yards and earning first-team AP All-Pro honors as a punt returner and a Pro Bowl nod as a returner.

During Tolbert's first season with the Titans in 2024, Wide receiver Calvin Ridley hauled in 64 receptions for 1,079 yards and his 15.9 receiving average ranked fifth in the NFL. He was one of only two players in the league, along with Philadelphia's A.J. Brown, to catch 60 receptions and record 1,000 receiving yards (1,017) while averaging at least 15.0 yards per catch in 2024.

Prior to Tennessee, Tolbert spent two years (2022-23) as pass game coordinator/wide receivers coach in Chicago, where he helped the Bears rank in the top half of the league in receiving average (11.1) during the span.

In 2023, he helped wide receiver DJ Moore tie for second in the NFL in receptions of at least 25 yards (16). Moore also ranked sixth in receiving yards (1,364), sixth in receiving first downs (64) and tied for eighth in receiving touchdowns (eight). His 1,364 receiving yards ranked fourth in franchise history for a single season, while his receptions total (96) was eighth all-time. His 96 receptions, 1,364 yards and eight touchdowns were all career highs.

In 2022, Tolbert helped lead a young wide receiver corps with several new faces, including wide receivers Equanimeous St. Brown and Dante Pettis. St. Brown, who started 16 games that year, recorded a career-best 377 yards from scrimmage. Pettis played in all 17 games and recorded seven starts with three touchdowns and 282 yards from scrimmage, both of which were his best since his rookie season.

Before his time in Chicago, Tolbert coached wide receivers with the New York Giants for four seasons (2018-21).

In 2021, he mentored rookie wideout Kadarius Toney, who ranked fifth in the NFL among first-year wide receivers with a 10.8 yards per reception average and 10th in yards after catch (228). Despite only playing in 10 games, Toney led Giants pass catchers with 420 yards.

In 2020, wide receiver Darius Slayton recorded 50 receptions for 751 yards (15.0 avg.), ranking 16th in the NFL in receiving average. That year, fifth-year wide receiver Sterling Shepard led the team with 66 catches for 656 yards and three touchdowns. It marked his third season with 65-plus receptions, making him the fourth Giants player since 2000 to record at least 65 receptions in three of his first five NFL seasons.

During the 2019 campaign, Tolbert's group had four different receivers record 100-plus-yard receiving games at least once throughout the season. Slayton produced one of the best seasons by a rookie wide receiver in Giants history, leading the offense with 740 receiving yards and eight touchdowns. He finished among the top five rookies in Giants history for receptions, yards and touchdowns.

In 2018, wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. led the wide receivers with 77 catches for a team-high 1,052 yards and six touchdowns despite missing the final four games with an injury. Shepard started all 16 games and finished second among the wideouts with a career-high 66 receptions and 872 yards.

Before his time with the Giants, Tolbert spent seven seasons with Denver and was part of the coaching staff for the Broncos' Super Bowl 50 team. He mentored wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, who was selected to five Pro Bowls (2012-16) and recorded at least 90 catches and 1,000 receiving yards in each season from 2012 to 2016. He joined Pro Football Hall of Famers Marvin Harrison (five) and Torry Holt (six) as the only players to reach those marks in at least five consecutive years.

Tolbert also played a key role in the development of wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders, who joined the Broncos in 2014 and was selected to his first two Pro Bowls (2014, 2016) while producing the first three 1,000-yard receiving seasons of his career. In 2016, Thomas (1,083) and Sanders (1,032) each topped 1,000 receiving yards for the third consecutive year to become just the seventh pair of wide receivers in NFL history to accomplish that feat as teammates.

In 2014, Thomas recorded a franchise-record 1,619 receiving yards, along with 111 catches and 11 touchdowns. Sanders hauled in 101 receptions to go along with 1,404 receiving yards and nine touchdowns. The pair combined for the most receptions (212) and receiving yards (3,023) by an NFL duo that season. Thomas earned his third Pro Bowl selection and joined Pro Football Hall of Famers Jerry Rice and Harrison as the only receivers in NFL history with three consecutive 1,400-yard and 10-touchdown seasons. Thomas' 2014 campaign included a Broncos record of seven consecutive 100-yard receiving games and a 226-yard outing against Arizona in Week 5 that was the highest single-game total in club history. Sanders was named to his first Pro Bowl after posting the fourth-most receiving yards (1,404) and fifth-most catches (101) in league history by a player in his first year with a new team.

In 2013, Tolbert's unit produced three players with 10-plus touchdowns, including wide receivers Wes Welker (10), Eric Decker (11) and Thomas (14). Tolbert also coached a pair of 1,000-yard performers in Thomas (1,430) and Decker (1,288), as Denver set an NFL single-season record with 606 points. Thomas, whose 14 receiving scores tied a franchise record, earned his second Pro Bowl selection that year.

Tolbert's 2012 wide receiver group helped Denver's fifth-ranked passing offense score at least 30 points in a team-record 11 games. Third-year wideouts Decker and Thomas became the youngest tandem in NFL history to record 1,000 receiving yards and 10 touchdowns each in a season.

Tolbert spent one season (2010) as the wide receivers coach for the Carolina Panthers and six (2004-09) in the same role in Buffalo, where he helped wide receiver Lee Evans become one of the most productive receivers in Bills history.

In 2004, while Eric Moulds totaled 1,043 yards on 88 catches, Evans led all NFL rookies with nine touchdown receptions and an average of 17.6 yards per catch. After finishing second in the NFL with seven receptions of 40-plus yards in 2005, Evans continued to improve under Tolbert in 2006, logging his first 1,000-yard season (1,292). Evans hit the 1,000-yard mark again in 2008 (1,017) to rank 10th in the NFL with an average of 16.1 yards per catch.

Tolbert spent the 2003 season with Arizona. That year, wide receiver Anquan Boldin earned Offensive Rookie of the Year honors and set a then-NFL rookie record with 101 catches for 1,377 yards—a record that stood until the 2021 season, when Miami's Jaylen Waddle totaled 102 catches.

Tolbert's first professional coaching experience was through the NFL's Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship, spending time with the Detroit Lions during training camp in 1997 and with the Arizona Cardinals in 2001.

Before the NFL, Tolbert coached at the college level from 1994 to 2002. He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at LSU in the spring of 1994 and served in the same capacity at Northeast Louisiana that fall. He went on to coach the wide receivers at Ohio University in the spring of 1995 before returning that fall to Northeast Louisiana, where he mentored the team's tight ends for three seasons.

Tolbert coached tight ends at Auburn in 1998 and spent the next three years (1999-2001) as the wide receivers coach/recruiting coordinator at Louisiana-Lafayette. He then went on to coach the tight ends and work as the recruiting coordinator at the University of Florida in 2002 before transitioning to the NFL in 2003.

A Conroe, Texas native, Tolbert was a wide receiver and three-year letterman at LSU (1986-90), where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees.

He and his wife, Linda, have two daughters, Morgan and Madison.