Keenan McCardell Named Wide Receivers Coach

The Redskins today announced the hiring of Keenan McCardell as wide receivers coach. McCardell takes over for the departed Stan Hixon -- a guy who happens to have been McCardell's final position coach in the NFL. McCardell, of course, was drafted by the Redskins in the twelfth round of the 1991 draft -- the only Pro Bowl player from the final five rounds of that draft -- and got his name onto the trophy for Super Bowl XXVI before going on to greater NFL success with Jacksonville, and another Super Bowl with Tampa Bay. He returned to the Redskins in 2007 for the final season of his NFL career, catching 22 passes for 256 yards and a touchdown, and often serving as a coach-on-the-field. He'll be starting his official coaching career in the same place he started his playing career; his previous coaching experience came coaching the receivers for the West team in this year's East/West Shrine Game, and as part of a Bill Walsh Minority Fellowship program during the New York ...