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history to accomplish the feat. Grant also finished second in the NFC in 2009 with 11 rushing scores, the most by a Packers running back since 2003. Bennett was key to the initial progress of Grant in 2007, Grant’s first season with the team, as he totaled five 100-yard performances and set a Green Bay postseason record with 201 yards on the ground against the Seahawks. In 2006, Bennett helped lead the Packers’ all-time leading rusher RB Ahman Green to his final 1,000-yard season. Due to injuries in Year 1 as running backs coach in 2005, Bennett mentored undrafted rookie RB Samkon Gado to the second-most productive season by a first-year running back in club history, as Gado posted 582 yards and six scores on the ground. Prior to his move to coaching, Bennett spent four years in the Packers front office, serving as the team’s director of player development from 2001- 04. Bennett and his developmental cast around him were recognized in 2003 as the NFC’s best player development department. PERSONAL: Native of Jacksonville, Fla. …Played eight seasons in the NFL for the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears…Was the Packers’ fourth-round selection in the 1992 NFL Draft…Played in 112 games, starting 77 of them and tallied 3,992 yards rushing on 1,115 carries and added 21 touchdowns…Also added 284 receptions for 2,245 yards and 10 receiving touchdowns…Became the fifth running back in Packers annals to rush for 1,000 yards in a season during the 1995 season as he finished with 1,067…Started for the Packers in their Super Bowl XXXI victory…Was a four-year starter at Florida State (1987, 1989-91) and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in social science, with a primary emphasis in political science and a secondary emphasis in sociology… Inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 2005…Inaugurated into the Florida State Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005…Attended Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville (Fla.) and earned first-team all-state honors…Has a son, Edgar IV, and daughter, Elyse Morgan.
In 2014, Bennett mentored Cobb and Nelson to one of the greatest single- season performances the NFL has seen by two teammates, as they became the first duo in league history to each record 90-plus receptions, 1,200-plus yards and 12-plus receiving touchdowns. Nelson’s 1,519 receiving yards set a club record, while his 98 receptions were fourth-most in franchise annals. For Cobb, it was the first 1,000-yard season of his career. The two both earned Pro Bowl selections after becoming the first pair of Packers players to notch at least 90 receptions in the same season. A 2013 campaign saw Green Bay receiving corps account for 3,319 yards receiving, the second most in a single season in club history, despite dealing with the loss of Rodgers for seven games due to injury. With four different quarterbacks taking the snap from under center that season, the group of receivers still managed to average 207.4 yards per game, second most in the league. In 2012, Jones led the NFL with 14 receiving touchdowns, becoming the first Packer to lead the league in receiving scores since WR Shannon Sharpe (18) accomplished the feat in 1994. With the absence of two of their top wide receivers for multiple games, Bennett helped second-year receiver Cobb emerge as a versatile threat, as he led the team with 80 receptions and 954 yards, while also hauling in eight touchdown passes. In 2011, the receivers posted some of the best numbers in club history, accounting for a team-record 3,667 yards receiving and 38 touchdowns, the second-highest touchdown total in NFL history by a receiving group at the time. Bennett coached Nelson to a career-high 15 touchdown receptions, the third most in team history, adding 68 receptions for 1,263 yards (18.6 avg.), marking the second-best receiving average in the league that year among wide receivers with at least 50 receptions. WR Greg Jennings earned a Pro Bowl selection that season, posting 949 yards and nine touchdowns in just 13 games played. Prior to his move to wide receivers, Bennett served six years as a running backs coach for the Packers from 2005-10. In his six years, Bennett coached running backs to 1,000-yard seasons three different times. In his last season as running backs coach, Bennett oversaw the development of sixth-round draft pick RB James Starks, who set a franchise rookie playoff-record with 123 rushing yards in 2010 in the NFC Wild Card round and was instrumental down the stretch during the Packers’ Super Bowl XLV title run. From 2008-09, Bennett coached RB Ryan Grant to over 1,200 yards on the ground in consecutive seasons, just the third tailback in team
COACHING BACKGROUND
Years Position Coached 2005-10 .................................... Green Bay Packers......................................... Running Backs 2011-14...................................... Green Bay Packers ........................................ Wide Receivers 2015-17 ..................................... Green Bay Packers......................................... Offensive Coordinator 2018-19..................................... Oakland Raiders ............................................. Wide Receivers 2020-22 ................................... Las Vegas Raiders.......................................... Wide Receivers College/Pro Team
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