From time to time, pro sports commentators like to make a point about certain players who seem to have the words "future coach" attached to their names even while they're still playing the game. The NFL is no different.
Players like Mike Ditka, Tony Dungy, Dick LeBeau, Mike Tomlin, and Raymond Berry, who were NFL players, and many others have gone on to have NFL coaching careers, as well. One close to home who obviously had that inclination is former Patriots player and current Patriots Head Coach, Mike Vrabel.
Vrabel, in only six years as a head coach, has already gleaned a coveted NFL Coach of the Year award (in 2021), and the Patriots, in one of their more level-headed decisions of recent vintage, moved quickly to lock up Vrabel to revive a franchise that had hit rock bottom.