Ken Whisenhunt (born
February 28,
1962,
Augusta, GA) is the highly regarded offensive coordinator of the
Pittsburgh Steelers NFL football team. He was instrumental to their victory in
Super Bowl XL and many of the previous playoff games. He interviewed to be the head coach of the
Oakland Raiders in February of 2006, but after not receiving an offer he decided to stay with the Steelers.
As of
January 5th, 2007, Whisenhunt has already interviewed for the vacant
Atlanta Falcons head coach opening, and is rumored as a candidate with the
Miami Dolphins and
Arizona Cardinals, as well as with his current team, the
Pittsburgh Steelers. Longtime head coach
Bill Cowher resigned on Janurary 5th after 15 years on the job.
Whisenhunt played college football at
Georgia Tech (1980-84).
Whisenhunt's unremarkable career as a player included 4 years (1985-88) as a
tight end with the
Atlanta Falcons and then spells with the
Washington Redskins and
New York Jets.
Malcom "Cam" Cameron is the current
offensive coordinator for the
NFL's
San Diego Chargers. Cameron, who was the head football coach at
Indiana University from
1997-
2001, has guided one of the NFL's most productive offenses over the past four seasons. His squad's success has not gone unnoticed as Cameron interviewed for the head coaching positions with both the
Houston Texans and
St. Louis Rams following the
2005 season. Cameron will interview for the head coaching job with the
Arizona Cardinals,
Atlanta Falcons and
Miami Dolphins during the first week of 2007.
The Chargers averaged 26.1 points per game in 2005, good for fifth in the NFL in that category. In
2004, San Diego scored 446 points, third-highest in the NFL and the third-most in team history. Following the 2004 campaign,
Sports Illustrated named Cameron its Offensive Assistant of the Year.
During his tenure at Indiana, Cameron helped develop quarterback
Antwaan Randle El (currently with the
Washington Redskins) into a
2001 first-team All-America selection. Cameron spent the 1994-96 seasons as the quarterbacks coach for the Washington Redskins. He was credited with the development of
Gus Frerotte, who was selected to the
Pro Bowl in
1997. Cameron was an assistant coach at the
University of Michigan from 1984-93.
A multi-sport athlete at
Terre Haute South High School, Cameron won the
1979 Trester Award for Mental Attitude as a guard on the high school basketball team which went to the state finals two years in a row. He played football and basketball at Indiana University under coaches
Lee Corso and
Bob Knight, respectively. As an undergraduate he was a member of the
Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He graduated from Indiana in
1983 with a degree in business.
