Reports say that former Patriots assistant coach Joe Judge has joined the football staff at Ole Miss.
According to ESPN, it is expected that Judge will take on the role of a senior analyst at Mississippi. Last year, he was the assistant head coach for the Patriots under Bill Belichick and was involved in coaching special teams. He also worked with the team’s quarterbacks in 2022, which was a tough offensive season, and after that, he was reassigned and offensive play-caller Matt Patricia left the team.
During most of his time in New England, from 2015-2019, Judge was the team’s special teams coordinator. He first joined the organization as a special teams assistant in 2012, after working in the same role at Alabama from 2009-11. He started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at his alumni, Mississippi State, and later spent one season at Birmingham-Southern in 2008.
Judge’s most well-known coaching role was as the head coach of the Giants from 2020-21, which ended with him being fired in New York and returning to New England.
Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin has been actively trying to add assistants who have connections to Belichick and retired Alabama coach Nick Saban. The addition of Judge was first reported by Ole Miss Spirit.
