On Friday the Chicago added another member to Matt Eberflus’ coaching staff, his seventeenth so far, in new assistant special teams coach Carols Polk.
Polk has been coaching since 2009, the first year his playing career ended, when he was hired as the assistant special teams coach Grossmont Junior College
In 2010 the team that initially selected him in the fourth round of the 2001 NFL Draft, the San Diego Chargers, hired him as their assistant special teams coach, and he stayed with the Chargers until 2012.
In 2013 he worked as a coaching intern for the Dallas Cowboys, which was the team he spent his final year in the NFL with (in 2008).