Redskins Lead The League In Bill Walsh Coaching Fellowship Participants

NFLLabor.com posted an article yesterday pretty much summarizing the 2010 Bill Walsh Minority Coaching Fellowship Program, breaking down the benefits of the program -- 25 NFL teams have a coach on staff who graduated from the program, including Keenan McCardell here in Washington, including four head coaches -- and explaining a bit of what the program tries to do. The program, which was named after the man who conceived the idea - late Pro Football Hall of Fame head coach Bill Walsh - exposes talented minority college coaches to the methods and philosophies of summer NFL training camps. Walsh introduced the concept in 1987 when he brought a group of minority coaches into his San Francisco 49ers' training camp. The program has mentored more than 1,500 minority coaches through the years. The piece has a strong Redskins flavor, from the picture of Chris Samuels to the quote from Chris Samuels ("I have always known that I wanted to coach football once I retired. This is always ...