Dave Wannstedt

Dave Wannstedt

Wannstedt with the Dolphins in 2003
Position:	Offensive tackle
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1952-05-21) May 21, 1952 (age 64)
Place of birth:	Baldwin, Pennsylvania
Career information
High school:	Pittsburgh (PA) Baldwin
College:	Pittsburgh
NFL Draft:	1974 / Round: 15 / Pick: 376
Career history
As player:
Green Bay Packers (1974)*
* Offseason and/or practice squad member only
As coach:
Pittsburgh (1975–1978) (GA) Oklahoma State (1979–1982) (DL) USC (1983–1985) (DL) Miami (FL) (1986–1988) (DC) Dallas Cowboys (1989–1992) (DC) Chicago Bears (1993–1998) (HC) Miami Dolphins (1999–2004) (1999) (AHC) (2000–2004) (HC) Pittsburgh (2005–2010) (HC) Buffalo Bills (2011–2012) (2011) (assistant HC/LB) (2012) (Defensive coordinator) Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2013) (ST)
Career highlights and awards
Super Bowl champion (XXVII) (Defensive Coordinator) Big East champion (2010)
Career NFL statistics
Player stats at NFL.com
Head coaching record
Regular season:	NFL: 82–86 (.488) NCAA: 42–31 (.575)
Postseason:	NFL: 2–3 (.400) NCAA: 1–1 (.500)
Career:	NFL: 85–89 (.489) NCAA: 43–32 (.573)
Coaching stats at PFR

Dave Wannstedt (born May 21, 1952) is an American football coach. He has been the head coach of the Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was also the head coach of the University of Pittsburgh football team from 2005 to 2010. He also was a long-time assistant to Jimmy Johnson with the Dallas Cowboys, Miami Hurricanes, and Oklahoma State Cowboys as well as an associate of Johnson when both were assistants at the University of Pittsburgh.

Wannstedt was born in Baldwin, Pennsylvania and attended Baldwin High School. He earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh playing offensive tackle and blocking for future Heisman Trophy winner Tony Dorsett. After a successful career with the Panthers, he was chosen in the fifteenth round of the 1974 NFL draft by the Green Bay Packers, but spent his only NFL season on the injured reserve list with a neck injury.

In 1975, Pitt coach Johnny Majors hired him as a graduate assistant coach. He was on the staff when the Panthers won the 1976 NCAA Division I-A national football championship with a victory over the Georgia Bulldogs in the 1977 Sugar Bowl. In 1977, Jimmy Johnson joined the staff of the Pitt Panthers and the two would forge a long lasting personal and professional bond. When Johnson left to become the head coach of the Oklahoma State Cowboys in 1979, he invited Wannstedt to join his staff.