Nebraska football announced today that Mike Dawson has returned to Nebraska and will take over coaching outside linebackers. He fills the position left by Jovan Dewitt when Dewitt left for North Carolina. Dawson left a year ago to join the New York Giants to coach outside linebackers, but was left without a job when Giants head coach Pat Shurmur was fired after two seasons in which the team had only nine wins.
Dawson was at Nebraska in 2018, and coached with Scott Frost at UCF in 2016, 2017. He has 21 years of coaching experience at FCS, FBS, and in the NFL.