Shane Waldron

Who is Shane Waldron?

Shane Waldron is an American football coach who is currently the recruiting coordinator and tight ends coach coach for the Massachusetts Minutemen football team. He previously was the tight ends coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League.

Waldron attended De La Salle North Catholic High School in Portland, Oregon. After a year at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he played football at Tufts University as a tight end and long snapper from 1999 through 2002. Waldron then was hired by the New England Patriots and worked for head coach Bill Belichick, also a Phillips Academy alumnus, as a football operations assistant. In 2005, Waldron followed Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weis to the University of Notre Dame as an offensive graduate assistant, but returned to the Patriots in 2008 as an offensive coaching assistant. He was promoted to tight ends coach following the 2008 season. He left the team after the 2009 and later joined the Hartford Colonials of the United Football League.