Todd Bowles, The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ defensive coordinator inked a new three-year deal that expires after the 2023 season, according to Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times.
Citing a source, ESPN Senior NFL Insider Adam Schefter says the fresh contract keeps Bowles as the highest-paid defensive coordinator in the NFL.
Todd Bowles previously served as the head coach of the New York Jets. Todd Bowles played eight seasons in the NFL as a safety, mainly for the Washington Redskins, and started in Super Bowl XXII.
Todd Bowles attended Elizabeth High School in Elizabeth, New Jersey and played college football at Temple University (Class of 1985), where he was a four-year starting defensive back for Bruce Arians, for whom Bowles would be an assistant coach decades later when Arians was head coach of the Arizona Cardinals.
Todd Bowles was signed by the Washington Redskins as an undrafted free agent on May 7, 1986.
After retiring as a player, Todd Bowles was a member of the Green Bay Packers’ player personnel staff under Ron Wolf in 1995 and 1996.
Todd Bowles was the defensive coordinator and secondary coach at Morehouse College in 1997, and the defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach at Grambling State from 1998 until 1999.