The Hamilton Tiger-Cats named Dennis McKnight the new Special Teams Coordinator on Wednesday. This comes after the Ticats fired Special Teams Coordinator Paul Boudreau on Tuesday.
This season, the Ticats’ special teams are ranked third in net punting average (37.6), fourth in punt returns average (49.7), and field goals (90%), sixth in kickoff return average (21.9), seventh in opponent kickoff return average (22.9), and eighth in opponent punt return average (13.0).
Dennis McKnight is 64 years old and is from Dallas, Texas. He played 11 seasons in the NFL for the San Diego Chargers (1982-89), Detroit Lions (1990, 1992), and the Philadelphia Eagles (1991) as an offensive lineman. He played college football at Drake and went undrafted in the 1981 NFL Draft and was a Graduate Assistant at Southeast Missouri State in 1981.
McKnight brings over 20 yards of coaching experience having stops with the Edmonton Eskimos (2011), Hamilton Tiger-Cats (2017-19), Houston Roughnecks (2020), and the Seattle Sea Dragons (2023). In college, McKnight had stops at Hawaii (1999-2000, 2006-07), Grossmont (2001-03), San Diego State (2005), Southern Methodist (2008-10), Lamar (2012-13) and Washington State (2021).
