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Ben McAdoo

Quarterbacks

Biography

The Green Bay Packers named Ben McAdoo quarterbacks coach on February 13, 2012.

McAdoo has been with the club since 2006, serving as the tight ends coach each of the past six seasons. He was instrumental in the development of TE Jermichael Finley, who matched his career high with 55 receptions (also 2009) for a career-best 767 yards and a career-high eight TDs in 2011. Finley’s reception total this past season was tied for No. 2 in franchise history and his yardage number also ranked No. 2 in team single-season annals. In 2009, Green Bay’s tight ends posted a collective 99 receptions for 1,048 yards under McAdoo’s direction, franchise records in both categories. Prior to coming to Green Bay, McAdoo served as assistant offensive line/quality control coach for the San Francisco 49ers in 2005 and offensive assistant/quality control for the New Orleans Saints in 2004. He also coached at the collegiate level at Akron, Pittsburgh, Fairfield and Michigan State.

2011 SEASON BIO:

Last name is pronounced MACK-ah-dew.
Has tutored Jermichael Finley, who tied a single-season team record with two 100-yard receiving games in 2010 despite playing in only five games due to a knee injury and posted the second-most catches (55) ever by a Packers TE in 2009.
Packers’ tight ends posted a collective 99 receptions for 1,048 yards in 2009, franchise records in both categories.
Joined Packers Jan. 17, 2006.
Has worked with Head Coach Mike McCarthy in each of previous two NFL tenures, with New Orleans and San Francisco.

Ben McAdoo begins his sixth season with the Packers as tight ends coach, his eighth season overall in the NFL.

Named to his position Jan. 17, 2006, by Head Coach Mike McCarthy, the 34-year-old McAdoo replaced current offensive coordinator Joe Philbin, who had been promoted to offensive line coach at the time. In each of McAdoo’s previous two NFL tenures, he has worked with McCarthy.

In 2010, third-year pro Jermichael Finley got off to a torrid start under McAdoo’s tutelage, posting 21 catches for 301 yards and a touchdown in the opening four games. That included back-to-back 100-yard receiving performances as Finley joined Paul Coffman (1979) as the only TEs in team annals to accomplish that feat. Finley’s three career 100-yard games already rank No. 2 in franchise history behind Coffman (six).

After Finley sustained a season-ending knee injury on the opening series at Washington in Week 5, a pair of young tight ends, rookie Andrew Quarless and first-year man Tom Crabtree, moved into more significant roles under McAdoo’s guidance. Quarless went on to post 21 receptions for 238 yards, the best marks by a Green Bay rookie TE in both categories since Bubba Franks (34-363) in 2000. Quarless’ 62 receiving yards at Detroit in Week 14 were the most by a Packers rookie TE in a game since Ron Kramer posted 68 at Detroit on Nov. 28, 1957.

In 2009, McAdoo oversaw one of the most productive seasons in team history by the tight ends. With the emergence of youngsters Finley and Spencer Havner, along with another year of steady production from veteran Donald Lee, Green Bay’s tight ends posted a collective 99 receptions for 1,048 yards, franchise records in both categories.

Finley (55 receptions) and Lee (37) became the first tight-end duo in franchise history to each post 35-plus receptions in the same season, and they were one of only two tandems in the league to do so in 2009, along with New Orleans’ Jeremy Shockey and David Thomas. Meanwhile, with Finley (five TDs) and Havner (four), the Packers were the only team in the NFL to have two tight ends catch at least four touchdown passes apiece.

The emergence of Finley, a third-round draft choice in 2008, was not a surprise after seeing the marked improvement he made in his first season. McAdoo helped Finley steadily learn the pro game as a rookie, and Finley flashed his tremendous potential over the final two games of the season, posting three receptions for 64 yards and his first NFL touchdown.

In 2007, it was former backup Lee enjoying a breakout year as he moved into a starting role. Lee posted career highs with 48 catches for 575 yards and six touchdowns, and he followed that up with consistent production in 2008-09 to become the first Packers tight end since Coffman (1981-83) to catch at least 35 passes in three consecutive seasons.

Upon arriving in Green Bay in 2006, McAdoo helped the Packers’ tight ends adapt successfully to additional blocking and pass-protection duties they hadn’t previously been assigned. The added assistance helped a young offensive line, with as many as three rookie starters at times, allow just 24 sacks all season.

McAdoo came to Green Bay from the San Francisco 49ers, where he served as assistant offensive line/quality control coach in 2005. In that role, he assisted the offensive line and tight ends.

Prior to joining the 49ers, he had a brief stint at Stanford University as tackles and tight ends coach. He resigned after the ’05 recruiting season to take the 49ers position and reunite with McCarthy, then the San Francisco offensive coordinator, with whom he worked in New Orleans the previous season.

McAdoo, pronounced (MACK-ah-dew), entered the NFL coaching ranks in 2004 with the New Orleans Saints as an offensive assistant/quality control. He worked directly with McCarthy and assisted the offensive line and tight ends.

Prior to working in the NFL, McAdoo spent 2003 as an offensive assistant at the University of Pittsburgh, helping the Panthers earn a trip to the Continental Tire Bowl after an 8-5 season. At season’s end, the University of Akron hired him as an assistant coach, but he stayed only through the ’04 recruiting period before joining the Saints staff.

Earlier, he served as offensive line/tight ends coach at Fairfield (Conn.) University in 2002. After that campaign, the head coach left the team and McAdoo was appointed assistant head coach before the program was disbanded.

He began his college coaching career at Michigan State (2001) as a special teams/offensive assistant, on the heels of coaching four years at the high school level. He spent two years in the Homer Center school district in Pennsylvania and two years in the Indiana (Pa.) area.

McAdoo attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and earned a degree in health and physical education. Later, he received his master’s degree in kinesiology from Michigan State.