It seems that many people knew that Shaun Dion Hamilton would become a football coach. Detroit Lions’ coach appears that he has achieved during his senior season in Alabama.
The assistant had undergone a broken ball in the 24-10 victory of Crimson Tide against LSU on November 4, 2017. But the Alabama had five other games to play, including a 26-23 victory against Georgia in the CFP national match.
“(The defensive coordinator and coach of the tiles inside) Jeremy Pruitt had just taken the post in Tennessee,” Hamilton said. “To prepare for the eliminatory match, and therefore priitt is on the recruitment of the road and things like that, and we have a GA or anything, and I jump essentially, like the coach of the secondary.”
Hamilton is preparing for his first season as a second -time coach for the Lions. It is his fourth season on Strait coaches staff. He became a defensive assistant in 2022 and worked as assistant coach of the seconds in 2023 and 2024. With Kelvin Sheppard who passes to the defensive coordinator of the coach of the seconds after Aaron Glenn left to become a head coach of the New York Jets this off-season, Hamilton moved in the vacancy.
“Some people think that I am relatively young or other”, the 29 -year -old Hamilton said. “But I worked extremely hard since I started to train to prepare for this moment. Day after day, week after, week, it’s a version 24/7 and 365 days to prepare for this moment and this moment at the moment.”
Hamilton went directly from the Strait’s list to the staff while the Lions coaches have seen in Hamilton what his other coaches had over the years.
“I feel like all my coaches, growing up when I started playing in college”, ” Hamilton said“They thought I was very intelligent:” One day you could see yourself training. “
“We were crossing the training camp in 2022, and I remember that (Glenn) said to me as:” Dude, you are going to be a coach one day. I did not know that my days of play slowed down.
Hamilton obtained recognition from all States at the High School Carver in Montgomery in 2012 and 2013. After four seasons in Alabama, Hamilton entered the NFL as a sixth round choice by Washington in 2018.
Hamilton played every match during his career in the NFL until undergoing an injury to the elbow on December 20, 2020. Hamilton landed on the injured reserve, and he missed the last two games of the regular season and the defeat of the Washington qualifiers against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before being canceled.
In 46 games, with seven departures, for Washington, Hamilton succeeded 97 plated, 2.5 bags, seven plated for the loss, three strokes of a quarter, an interception, two forced escapes and an escaped recovery while going up on the field for 625 defensive snaps and 822 special teams.
Hamilton joined Detroit as a derogation complaint on January 12, 2021, but he made an injured reserve in the training camp seven months later after supporting a torn triceps muscle.
Hamilton had played in the first two pre-season games of the Lions in 2022 when it was released.
“It was not at all difficult,” Hamilton said to accept a place with the staff of Detroit coaches. “I tell people each box that any football player might want, I checked. By playing in Alabama, winning the national championships, you are drafted, you go to the League, you made games in the league – I mean, I checked all my boxes.
“And one thing, I am a big one, like, make a difference in the life of others, so what better opportunity than now? I want to be the coach maybe I never had.”
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Mark Inbainett is a sports journalist for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on x to @Ammarkg1.
