LB Singleton back with Bucs as coaching internGreg Auman, Times Staff Writer Thursday, July 30, 2015 6:41pm
Three of Lovie Smith's former players will join the Bucs coaching staff for training camp, including another former Bucs linebacker in Alshermond Singleton, who is part of the Bill Walsh Minority Coaching Fellowship.Singleton, 39, who played for the Bucs from 1997-2002 and was on Tampa Bay's Super Bowl championship squad, played linebacker under Smith as a Bucs assistant from 1997-2000. The Bucs already have two former linebackers on staff in linebackers coach Hardy Nickerson and director of football operations Shelton Quarles.Two former Bears players will also be helping during training camp -- ex-receiver Johnny Knox, 28, who caught 12 touchdowns for the Bears from 2009-11, is also a Walsh fellow, and former Bears defensive end Mark Anderson, 32, who had 12 sacks as a rookie on Smith's Super Bowl team in 2006, will be on the staff as a Wooten-Nunn Scouting Fellow internship.Former Bucs defensive back Donnie Abraham, who started 78 games for Tampa Bay from 1996-2001, was also working with the Bucs coaching staff during OTA workouts this summer.
