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One-time Chip Kelly assistant Michael Clay is returning to the Eagles as special teams coach, the team announced Friday on its website.
Clay, 29, played for Kelly at Oregon and after spending 2013 in training camp with the Dolphins he began his coaching career under Kelly in 2014.
He spent 2014 as a defensive quality control assistant and then was promoted to assistant special teams coach under Dave Fipp prior to the 2015 season.
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When Kelly was fired and then hired by the 49ers, Clay went with him, serving as assistant special teams coach in 2016. Kyle Shanahan kept Clay in 2017 after Kelly was fired but moved him to assistant strength and conditioning coach. Clay returned to special teams assistant the last two years under Richard Hightower.
With the Eagles, Clay replaces Fipp, who left earlier this week to become special teams coach of the Lions under Dan Campbell after eight years with the Eagles.
Clay played football at Bellarmine Prep in San Jose, Ca., before earning 2nd-team all-Pac 12 honors as a linebacker his senior year at Oregon. Among his teammates at Oregon were Kiko Alonso, Josh Huff, Kenjon Barner and Taylor Hart.
At 29, Clay is by far the Eagles’ youngest special teams coach ever. Dick LeBeau was 35 when he became special teams coach in 1973 and Rory Segrest was 35 when he took over special teams in 2007.
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