Lane Kiffin, the Ole Miss Rebels coach, added another seasoned football mind to his team on Wednesday.
The Ole Miss Rebels added another member to their football staff on Wednesday, and Lane Kiffin has once again enlarged his coaching tree with an experienced veteran who has worked with some of the sport’s best brains.
According to On3, the Rebels have hired Joe Judge, a former NFL head coach and assistant. Judge was most recently an assistant head coach for the New England Patriots in 2023, after serving as an offensive assistant and quarterbacks coach under Bill Belichick in 2022. Most football fans remember Judge for his brief head coaching career with the New York Giants in 2020-21. The judge was fired after posting a 10-23 record.
Before working with the best coach in professional football history, Judge was a special teams assistant for the Alabama Crimson Tide under Nick Saban from 2009 to 2011. Judge was the special teams and linebackers coach for the Birmingham-Southern Panthers in 2008. Judge began his coaching career with the Mississippi State Bulldogs as a graduate assistant from 2005 to 2007. He played for State from 2000 to 2004, earning three varsity letters.
Judge will join another former Bulldog on Kiffin’s staff in 2024, after the Rebels signed ex-Mississippi State head coach Zach Arnett as an assistant in March. In addition to Arnett, Kiffin has added NFL veteran Mike Williams, SMU Senior Director of Scouting Alex Brown, and former Texas Longhorn Billy Glasscock.
