After Haason Reddick was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the first round of the 2017 draft, his first NFL position coach was Larry Foote, who was then in charge of Arizona's linebacker room. Reddick played off-ball linebacker in first three seasons – perhaps miscast in that role – before moving into an edge-rush role and immediately responding with a 12.5-sack season.
Reddick has stayed at outside linebacker ever since, and when he signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in free agency this past March, he joined a position room that was coached by…none other than Larry Foote. The highly-regarded assistant coach was moving back into that assignment after spending the prevoius three seasons tutoring the inside linebackers.
"It's amazing, especially to see him in a bit of a different role