{"id":706787,"date":"2026-01-26T17:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/706787\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:03:19","slug":"falcons-hire-dolphins-st-coordinator-craig-aukerman-in-same-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/706787\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons Hire Dolphins ST Coordinator Craig Aukerman In Same Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta Falcons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantafalcons.com\/news\/falcons-hire-craig-aukerman-special-teams-coordinator\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> they have hired Dolphins ST coordinator Craig Aukerman as their ST coordinator under new HC Kevin Stefanski.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have named Craig Aukerman as Special Teams Coordinator! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gC8lz3uCNQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/gC8lz3uCNQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nEhFNxYAlf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nEhFNxYAlf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atlanta Falcons (@AtlantaFalcons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AtlantaFalcons\/status\/2015813797651312888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aukerman, 49, began his coaching career at Findlay as a WRs coach. From there, he held a number of college jobs before taking his first NFL job with the Broncos as a defnsive assistant.<\/p>\n<p>After stints with the Jaguars, Titans and Chargers, Aukerman returned to Tennessee as their assistant special teams coordinator in 2017. He was promoted to the top job a year later.<\/p>\n<p>The Titans then opted to fire Aukerman back at the beginning of December of 2023. He was hired as the Dolphins ST coordinator for the 2025 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Looking for the latest NFL Insider News &amp; Rumors?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be sure to follow <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/nfltraderumors.co\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL Trade Rumors<\/a> on <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nfltrade_rumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.com<\/a>\u00a0and <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nfltraderumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FACEBOOK<\/a>\u00a0for breaking NFL News and Rumors for all 32 teams!<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                                    \t                &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; The Atlanta Falcons announced they have hired Dolphins ST coordinator Craig Aukerman as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,21772,224,7,8591,6],"class_list":["post-706787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-falcons","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-atlantafalcons","tag-craig-aukerman","tag-falcons","tag-football","tag-kevin-stefanski","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115962485751505728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}