Patriots Wide Receivers Coach Joe Judge Named Head Coach of Giants, According to Reports

Patriots Wide Receivers Coach Joe Judge Named Head Coach of Giants, According to Reports

New England Patriots wide receivers coach Joe Judge has been named the head coach of the New York Giants, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

According to Schefter, Judge, 38, was the youngest of seven known candidates for the job.

He will replace Pat Shurmur who was fired by New York last week after two seasons.

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Judge interveiwed with the Giants on Monday, two days after the Patriots season ended. 

About Judge

Judge just finished his eighth season with the Patriots and first as special teams coordinator/wide receivers coach.

He originally joined the Patriots as assistant special teams coach in 2012 and was promoted to special teams coach following Scott O’Brien’s retirement in 2015.

Judge came to the Patriots after a three-year stint at the University of Alabama as a football analyst under coach Nick Saban.

While on the Alabama staff, Judge was a member of two National Championship teams in 2009 and 2011 and assisted with the special teams units.

Prior to going to Alabama, Judge spent one season at Birmingham-Southern where he served as special teams/linebackers coach in 2008.

He began his coaching career at Mississippi State as a graduate assistant under Sylvester Croom from 2005-07.