Just because the Miami Dolphins didn’t lose defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver to the New Orleans Saints’ head coaching job, it doesn’t mean they’re completely out of the woods from losing an assistant to the Saints.
New Dolphins wide receivers coach Robert Prince, who took the job less than a month ago, is interviewing for New Orleans’ offensive coordinator vacancy, according to NFL Network.
Prince, 59, came over to Miami after spending the past three seasons with the Cowboys’ leading wide receivers in Dallas. There, he spent the 2022 season under offensive coordinator Kellen Moore. Therein lies the connection with the Saints’ opening, as Moore, after a successful season as offensive coordinator for the Super Bowl-champion Philadelphia Eagles, got the head coaching job in New Orleans that Weaver was vying for.
Prince has coached college and professional football since 1989. He was with the Houston Texans as wide receivers coach in 2021 and led Detroit Lions wide receivers from 2014 to 2020, even acting as head coach for a game during the COVID-19 pandemic, when interim Lions head coach Darrell Bevell, who is now Miami’s quarterbacks coach, was out for a game due to COVID.
With vast experience coaching the likes of elite wide receivers CeeDee Lamb and Calvin Johnson, one of Prince’s tasks in taking the Dolphins’ job this offseason is to get the team’s wide receivers room, with the personality of often-troublesome Tyreek Hill, in order.
Hill had a locker-room outburst to finish the past season, saying he wanted out from the team. He has since cleared the air and retracted those sentiments.
Hill failed to make the Pro Bowl for the first time in his nine-year NFL career in 2025. Neither he nor Jaylen Waddle, who had reached 1,000 receiving yards each of his first three seasons, reached quadruple digits in yards last year.
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