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Ex-Bucs WR Lawrence Dawsey worked with team during OTAs

Former USF and FSU assistant was one of Bucs' Bill Walsh fellows last month.
 
Former Bucs receiver Lawrence Dawsey, right, had 107 yards in this 1992 game against the Packers.
(TIMES FILES | 1992)
Former Bucs receiver Lawrence Dawsey, right, had 107 yards in this 1992 game against the Packers. (TIMES FILES | 1992)
Published June 18, 2018

The Bucs had four extra coaches during organized team activities last month as part of the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship, including former Tampa Bay receiver Lawrence Dawsey.

Dawsey, 50, played for the Bucs from 1991-95, finishing his time in Tampa Bay with 206 catches for 2,842 yards and five touchdowns. He still ranks among the team's top 20 in career receptions and receiving yards.

Dawsey worked with the Bucs during OTA workouts from May 22-31. He isn't coaching anywhere right now, as he worked at his alma mater, Florida State, from 2007-17, but didn't go with Jimbo Fisher to Texas A&M and wasn't retained as part of Willie Taggart's new staff at FSU. He also worked in Tampa from 2004-06 as USF's receivers coach.

Current Bucs receivers coach Skyler Fulton came to the Bucs as part of the Walsh fellowship program. The Bucs will have more Walsh fellows during training camp, which starts in late July. The other coaches who worked with the Bucs during OTAs as part of the program were:

•  Derek Hagan, who was briefly with the Bucs as a receiver in summer 2013 and played for Dirk Koetter at Arizona State from 2002-05, topping 1,000 receiving yards in each of his last three seasons. Hagan, who worked with the Bucs from May 22-24, is now an offensive analyst on former Bucs assistant Herm Edwards' new Arizona State coaching staff after spending the last two years as a Sun Devils radio sideline reporter.

•  Darnell Stapleton, who worked as a Walsh fellow with the Bucs offensive line in training camp last year, was back working with the team from June 4-7. Now the offensive line coach at Sam Houston State, he played two years with the Steelers and was part of the Pittsburgh team that won a Super Bowl at Raymond James Stadium in 2009.

•  Roderick Chance, who worked with the Bucs from June 4-7, is the defensive coordinator at Southern Utah State. He overlapped with current Bucs defensive backs coach Brett Maxie at Vanderbilt, where he was a defensive quality control coach in 2014-15.