Diabate to Coach Alongside Bills Staff
7/23/2014 10:25:00 AM | Football
Defensive Graduate Assistant Siriki Diabate will coach with the Buffalo Bills during the team's training camp
Syracuse Defensive Graduate Assistant Siriki Diabate will get an opportunity to learn from an NFL coaching staff this summer as a recipient of the Bill Walsh Minority Coaching Fellowship.
Diabate will work alongside his former coach Doug Marrone on the Buffalo Bills coaching staff during the team's training camp at St. John Fisher College in Pittsford, N.Y. In this role, he will work with the Bills linebackers.
Diabate joined the Orange coaching staff this summer after his playing career with the Orange concluded in 2012.
In his two seasons with the Orange after transferring from Nassau Community College, Diabate made 101 tackles, including 13.5 for a loss. In 2012, Diabate served as a team captain and helped lead a defense that ranked sixth nationally in tackles for loss per game.
The Bill Walsh Minority Coaching Fellowship is designed to expose talented minority college coaches to the methods and philosophies of summer NFL training camps. Walsh introduced the idea to the league in 1987 when he brought in a group of such coaches into his San Francisco 49ers training camp. Eventually every NFL team became a participant in the program.
Diabate is the second member of the Orange to be selected for the opportunity by the Bills, joining Gary Emanuel who was a defensive line coach at Syracuse from 1991-93 and earned the fellowship with Buffalo for the 1992 season and currently is a coach for the Indianapolis Colts.
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Diabate will work alongside his former coach Doug Marrone on the Buffalo Bills coaching staff during the team's training camp at St. John Fisher College in Pittsford, N.Y. In this role, he will work with the Bills linebackers.
Diabate joined the Orange coaching staff this summer after his playing career with the Orange concluded in 2012.
In his two seasons with the Orange after transferring from Nassau Community College, Diabate made 101 tackles, including 13.5 for a loss. In 2012, Diabate served as a team captain and helped lead a defense that ranked sixth nationally in tackles for loss per game.
The Bill Walsh Minority Coaching Fellowship is designed to expose talented minority college coaches to the methods and philosophies of summer NFL training camps. Walsh introduced the idea to the league in 1987 when he brought in a group of such coaches into his San Francisco 49ers training camp. Eventually every NFL team became a participant in the program.
Diabate is the second member of the Orange to be selected for the opportunity by the Bills, joining Gary Emanuel who was a defensive line coach at Syracuse from 1991-93 and earned the fellowship with Buffalo for the 1992 season and currently is a coach for the Indianapolis Colts.
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