Bill Sheridan
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| Position: | Linebackers coach |
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| Date of birth: | January 27, 1959 |
| Place of birth: | Detroit, Michigan |
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| High school: | Detroit (MI) De La Salle |
| College: | Grand Valley State |
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Bill Sheridan (born January 27, 1959) is an American football coach who is currently the linebackers coach for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). Sheridan was previously the defensive coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was also a coach for a number of college teams, including Notre Dame and Michigan State. From 2005 to 2008 he was the linebackers coach for the NFL's New York Giants. In 2009, he was the defensive coordinator for the New York Giants.
A native of Detroit, Michigan, Sheridan earned four letters as a linebacker at Grand Valley State University. He graduated from De La Salle Collegiate High School in Detroit.
Sheridan and his wife, Jaycine, have four children: Joe, Nick, Mark and Natalie. Nick was a quarterback at the University of Michigan from 2008–2009, and is currently a Graduate Assistant/QB Coach for The University of Tennessee. His son, Mark, is a Graduate Assistant at the University of Arkansas.
Sheridan's coaching career began in 1981 in Shrine High School in Royal Oak, Michigan, where he was the football coach until 1984. In 1987, he moved to the college level and became the linebacker coach for Maine, followed by Cincinnati and Army. In 1996, he shifted to defensive line coach at West Point. He had been on Lloyd Carr’s staff at the University of Michigan the previous three years before his stint with the Giants, serving as both the linebackers coach and then as coach of the defensive line.
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