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Tight Ends
Sixth NFL season
Fourth Packers Season
Ben McAdoo begins his fourth season with the Packers as tight ends coach, his sixth season overall in the NFL.
Named to his position Jan. 17, 2006, by Head Coach Mike McCarthy, the 32-year-old McAdoo is an up-and-coming member of the coaching profession. He 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.
Over the past two years, McAdoo has overseen the emergence of Donald Lee as the team's No. 1 tight end. Lee went from a backup role player to NFL starter in 2007, posting career highs with 48 catches for 575 yards and six touchdowns, and he followed that up with another productive 2008, with 39 receptions for 303 yards and five scores to become the first Packers tight end since Jackie Harris (1992-93) to post back-to-back seasons of 39-or-more receptions.
His newest protege is second-year pro Jermichael Finley, a third-round draft choice in 2008. McAdoo helped Finley steadily learn the pro game as a rookie, and he flashed his tremendous potential over the final two games of the season, posting three receptions for 64 yards and his first NFL touchdown.
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 previous 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 in 2005 as assistant offensive line/quality control coach. 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 at the Homer Center school district in Pennsylvania and two years in the Indiana 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.
Born in Homer City, Pa., McAdoo and his family live in De Pere.