On Tuesday afternoon, the Washington Redskins announced their candidates for the 2019 Bill Walsh NFL Diversity Coaching Fellowship. Per the Redskins official site, the program “exposes talented minority college coaches, high school coaches and former players to the methods and philosophies of NFL coaching staffs.”
The program was started in 1987 with the 49ers and is named for their legendary head coach and pioneer of the West-Coast offense, Bill Walsh.
Of the list of candidates this year, one name stands out among the rest. That’s Phil Taylor. A former first-round pick by the Cleveland Browns, Taylor spent two seasons with the Redskins while they tried to solve some of the problems they had at nose tackle.