The Tar Heels are making the final few additions to Bill Belichick’s first staff in Chapel Hill and on Friday night, it was revealed that one of his former players will be one of those late additions.
During an interview with TMZ Sports that aired on Friday evening, former Patriots linebacker Jamie Collins revealed that he will be joining Bill Belichick’s staff as a defensive assistant. Check out his full interview with TMZ below.
Collins spent seven of his ten seasons at the NFL level under Belichick with the New England Patriots. He was selected by Belichick and Co. with the 52nd overall pick in the 2013 NFL Draft and spent the first three and a half seasons with the team before he was traded to the Cleveland Browns. After a quiet first season in the league for him, he became a starter ahead of the 2014 season for a team that won the Super Bowl and peaked in 2015 when he finished the season with 89 total tackles, eight tackles for loss, 5.5 sacks, an interception and a league-high five forced fumbles on his way to Pro Bowl and Second Team All-Pro honors. Collins would have some nice success in Cleveland before returning to New England for one season in 2019, where he would put up better numbers than that 2015 season (81 ttkl, 10 TFL, 7.0 scks, 3 INT, 3 FF, FR). Following that season, he headed to Detroit where he spent the next year and a half where things would start to tail off. He would rejoin the Patriots in the middle of the 2021 season. He would spend his final thirteen games with the team to close out his career.
This will be Collins first coaching job following his official retirement from the league on October 6, 2023.
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