Bills appoint Christian Taylor as defensive assistant, Jahmile Addae as coach of the CBs, and Ronald Curry as quarterback coach.
On Wednesday, the Buffalo Bills hired three new coaches: Christian Taylor to oversee defensive quality control, Ronald Curry to train the team’s quarterbacks, and Jahmile Addae to coach the cornerbacks.
Here’s more about the newest members of the Bills coaching staff:
Ronald Curry
Curry, 44, has spent the previous eight seasons with the Saints, first serving as an offensive assistant from 2016 to 2017 and then as the wide receivers coach from 2018 to 2020 before taking over as the quarterbacks coach in 2021–2023. Curry’s duties were expanded by the Saints to include passing game coordinator before to the 2022 season.
Curry also spent two seasons in New Orleans (2017–18) as an assistant to Joe Brady, the offensive coordinator for the Buffalo Bills. Brady served as Sean Payton’s offensive assistant for those two seasons, while Curry was a wide receivers coach in 2018 after serving as an offensive assistant in 2017.
Curry had a way with developing offensive potential throughout his stint in New Orleans. Michael Thomas established an NFL record for the most receptions in a single season (149) during the season he was the wide receiver coach.
Curry assisted in mentoring a number of quarterbacks after switching to the position of quarterback coach, including Derek Carr, Andy Dalton, Taysom Hill, and Jameis Winston. Curry managed three different starting quarterbacks (Hill, Trevor Siemian, and Ian Book) for the remainder of the 2021 season after Winston sustained an injury in the middle of the season. At year’s end, the Saints had a 9-8 record.
For the most of the 2022 season, Curry collaborated with Andy Dalton, enabling Dalton to record a career-high completion percentage of 66.7%.
In Virginia, Curry was a well-known two-sport player before he began coaching in the NFL. He played basketball and football collegiately at the University of North Carolina after being named an All-American in high school (1998–2001).
During his four years as a starter at UNC, he recorded the most throwing yards (4,987) in school history.
Curry later switched to wide receiver after being selected by the Oakland Raiders in the 2022 NFL Draft. Between 2002 and 2008, he amassed 2,347 yards and 13 touchdowns.
In 2014, Curry started working as an offensive assistant in the NFL with the 49ers of San Francisco.
Jahmile Addae
After serving as the University of Miami’s secondary coach for the previous two seasons, Jahmile Addae was appointed the new cornerbacks coach for the Bills. Addae was selected twice for the All-Big East team while playing defensive back at West Virginia.
Addae worked as a graduate assistant at Michigan and West Virginia before taking on the roles of running backs coach and director of player development for three seasons at the University of Cincinnati. He worked as a defensive backs coach and analyst at the University of Arizona for the next five seasons.
In 2018, Addae served as the defensive backs coach at the University of Minnesota. He then left to work as a defensive secondary coach in West Virginia, where he also briefly held the position of co-defensive coordinator and cornerbacks coach.
By 2021, before moving to Miami in 2022, Addae was the defensive backs coach at the University of Georgia, where he earned a national title.
Christian Taylor
Taylor will work as a quality control coach on defense. He was a quarterback for William and Mary. In 2008, he started working as a tight ends coach at his former school. In 2009, he became the quarterbacks coach.
Prior to joining the University of San Diego as the running backs coach and recruiting coordinator, Taylor worked as an offensive assistant at San Diego State and Michigan. After returning to USD as the wide receivers coach and subsequently the offensive coordinator, Taylor worked as the offensive coordinator for Illinois Wesleyan University for a year.
Taylor most recently worked at William & Mary for the previous four seasons as both the running backs coach and offensive coordinator.
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