Addae’s coaching résumé spans multiple colleges—Miami, Georgia, West Virginia, Minnesota and Arizona—with a notable stop as West Virginia’s co-defensive coordinator in 2020. His most visible work came during his time in Athens, where he coached Georgia’s DBs in 2021 as the program captured its first national championship in more than four decades. He spent the following two seasons as Georgia’s DBs coach before moving to the NFL.
Sources confirm the Dolphins are hiring Bills cornerbacks coach Jahmile Addae in the same role, a move tied to the broader NFL coaching shifts around the league. The Dolphins, valued at about $7.5 billion, are conducting their own coaching changes as well, with Addae slated to take over the cornerbacks room.
Addae’s career path has frequently featured short stints at programs or franchises, with his longest stays lasting three years at Cincinnati and Arizona. His NFL move followed the Bills’ staff shakeup—Sean McDermott was fired, and OC Joe Brady was promoted in the Bills’ leadership changes. The Dolphins, likewise undergoing changes after parting ways with Mike McDaniel, added Addae as part of Jeff Hafley’s staff, per the reporting around the hire.
In Miami, Addae will be tasked with stabilizing a secondary that faced a downturn last season. By comparison, his Bills unit ranked seventh in opponent passer rating (79.8) and fourth in completion percentage allowed (59.7), whereas the Dolphins’ numbers lagged with a notably weaker showing.
Addae is part of a broader trend of Kirby Smart assistants moving into head coaching roles in the NFL and college ranks. Todd Monken, for instance, was named the Cleveland Browns’ head coach—the latest example of Smart’s coaching tree landing high-profile roles. Monken previously coached Georgia’s offense and helped develop quarterback Stetson Bennett, contributing to back-to-back national titles in 2021 and 2022.
