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Rich Bisaccia

Rich Bisaccia

Special Teams Coordinator

• Formally named as Clemson’s special teams coordinator on March 4, 2026.

• Spent five years with the Tigers from 1994-98 as the team’s running backs and special teams coach.

• Returned to Clemson in 2026 with more than 40 years of coaching experience across the collegiate and professional levels.

• Served 24 straight seasons as an NFL special teams coordinator with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2002-2010), San Diego Chargers (2011-12), Dallas Cowboys (2013-17), Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders (2018-21) and Green Bay Packers (2022-25).

• Starting in 2008, held an assistant head coach title in addition to his special teams responsibilities in 14 of his final 18 NFL seasons.

• Produced 11 units that finished with top-10 rankings in kickoff return average in his 24 NFL seasons and helped seven different special teams players to at least one Pro Bowl honor: punters Josh Bidwell and AJ Cole, return specialists Clifton Smith and Keisean Nixon, long snappers Dave Moore and L.P. Ladouceur, and kicker Dan Bailey.

• Served as interim head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders for 13 games in 2021, including one in the AFC Wild Card Round. He led the 3-2 Raiders to a 7-5 regular season record for a 10-7 finish under his watch, becoming the first NFL interim head coach to lead a team to the playoffs since Bruce Arians in 2012.

• In Green Bay, helped guide Nixon to first-team AP All-Pro at kick returner in both 2022-23, just the fourth NFL player to do so in back-to-back years alongside Mel Gray, Devin Hester and Cordarrelle Patterson.

• Also tutored kicker Anders Carlson in 2023 as he connected on at least one field goal in all 17 games, the most ever by a rookie in league history. Additionally, punter Daniel Whelan posted an average of 46.2 yards that season, the second-best single-season mark in franchise history.

• Helped the Packers block six kicks (including playoffs) from 2022-24, tied for second-most in the NFL and the most by Green Bay over a three-year span since 2003-05. The Packers also posted their best three-year mark on kickoff returns in team history with an average of 26.0 yards per return in that span.

• In 2021, tutored Raiders punter AJ Cole, who earned first-team AP All-Pro recognition after leading the NFL in punting average (50.0), and kicker Daniel Carlson, who set a single-season Raiders record with 150 points (tied for No. 1 in the NFL) including a team-record 40 field goals on his way to earning second-team AP All-Pro honors.

• Earned votes for both NFL Coach of the Year and NFL Assistant Coach of the Year from the Associated Press in 2021 for his role as both the Radiers’ special teams coordinator and interim head coach.

• Coached former Clemson receiver Hunter Renfrow as Renfrow finished the 2020 season ranked second in the NFL with an average of 11.5 yards per punt return.

• In five seasons with the Cowboys from 2013-17, guided a unit that ranked fifth in the NFL over that span in kickoff return average (24.2), including a No. 4 ranking in 2013 after the team finished No. 29 in the category in 2012.

• Guided the Chargers to a No. 10 ranking in net punting average (39.7) in 2011 after the Chargers finished last in the league the year prior to his arrival. Punter Mike Scifres ranked sixth in the NFL in punting average (47.5) in 2011, and a year later he ranked third in the league while setting a single-season franchise record for punting average (48.3).

• Entered the NFL ranks in 2002 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he served as special teams coordinator from 2002-07 before adding the responsibility of assistant head coach and running backs coach in 2008. Bisaccia served as the associate head coach/special teams coordinator in 2009-10.

• During his nine seasons with the Bucs, guided his units to top-10 rankings over that span in kickoff return average (fourth, 23.0), opponent kickoff return average (sixth, 21.0), fewest kickoff/punt returns touchdowns allowed (tied for fourth, five), punts placed inside the 20 (seventh, 229) and opponent field goals blocked (tied for first, 12).

• In his first NFL season in 2002, helped the Buccaneers to their first Super Bowl title as kicker Martin Gramatica tied for the NFL lead with 32 field goals and Tampa Bay ranked fourth in the league in kickoff return average (24.1).

• Coached the 2009 Buccaneers to the NFL’s best mark in kickoff return average (26.3) and a No. 2 ranking in opponent kickoff return average (19.1), their fourth straight season finishing in the top five in the NFL in opponent average. Tampa Bay also led the league with six blocked kicks on the season.

• Helped rookie Clifton Smith become the first Buccaneer to be selected to the Pro Bowl as a kick returner after ranking in the top five in the NFL in both punt return average (No. 2, 14.1) and kickoff return average (No. 5, 27.6) in 2008. Smith was the first NFL rookie to average 27.5-plus yards on kickoff returns and 14.0-plus yards on punt returns since Hall of Famer Gale Sayers in 1965.

• Led the Buccaneers to a No. 1 rank in opponent kickoff return average (18.4) and guided LS Dave Moore to his first career Pro Bowl selection in 2008.

• Spent 19 seasons prior to his NFL tenure, beginning in 1983 when he coached defensive backs and special teams at Wayne State before tutoring quarterbacks and wide receivers for the program from 1984-87.

• Served six seasons from 1988-93 at South Carolina, beginning as a graduate assistant for tight ends and wide receivers in 1988, then as a volunteer assistantfor three seasons before becoming the running backs coach/special teams coordinator for 1992-93.

• In his five seasons in his first tenure at Clemson from 1994-98, Clemson set a single-season school record with eight blocked kicks in 1997 and blocked 15 kicks from 1995-97, the most in school history over a three-season span. In his role overseeing running backs, he helped tailback Raymond Priester set 18 Clemson rushing records, including single-game, season-season and career rushing yardage records.

• Spent three seasons at Ole Miss, guiding running back Deuce McAllister to all-conference honors in 1999 and 2000 and a first round selection in the 2001 NFL Draft.

• Was a four-year starter at defensive back for Yankton (S.D.) College from 1979-82, including serving as a team captain in 1982 and earning all-conference honors in each of his final two seasons.

• Native of Yonkers, N.Y.