Denver Broncos hire Renaldo Hill as defensive backs coach

The Denver Broncos continue filling out their coaching staff. They have hired former safety Renaldo Hill to coach their defensive backs.

Renaldo Hill is returning to the Denver Broncos. The team has announced that Hill has been hired to be the team’s defensive backs coach.

This is Hill’s fifth destination as a coach. He spent the 2019 season as the assistant defensive backs coach for the Miami Dolphins.

Prior to that, he was the defensive backs coach for Pittsburgh’s college program. He served as Wyoming’s cornerback’s coach in 2013 and Wyoming graduate assistant in 2012.

Hill spent time with the Arizona Cardinals, Oakland Raiders, and Miami Dolphins before capping off his playing career with the Denver Broncos, where he spent the 2009 and 2010 seasons.

A seventh round pick of the Cardinals in 2001, Hill finished his career with 596 tackles, 6.5 sacks, 60 passes defended and 19 interceptions. As a member of the Broncos, he recorded four interceptions, ten passes defended, two forced fumbles, two sacks and 122 tackles.

He played alongside guys like Champ Bailey and Brian Dawkins.

Hill will be tasked with coaching up guys such as Chris Harris Jr, Bradley Roby, Tramaine Brock, Will Parks, Justin Simmons, and others.

Hill was hired after last year’s defensive backs coach, Marcus Robertson, like other coaches on the team, was granted permission to seek a job with another team. Robertson went to the Arizona Cardinals.

With the addition of Hill, the Broncos are continuing to turn over a new leaf. After missing the playoffs this previous three seasons, the majority of their coaching staff has been replaced.

It will be interesting to see what type of impact Hill can make on a Denver secondary that had struggled throughout the 2018 season.

Can they get back on track and perform the way we know they can? A lot of work will need to be done before we can say for sure that this was the right move for the Broncos’ defensive backfield.