Anthony Midget
{{Short description|American football player and coach (born 1978)}}
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{{Infobox NFL biography
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| current_team = Pittsburgh Steelers
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| position = Assistant secondary coach
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|2|22}}
| birth_place = Clewiston, Florida, U.S.
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| high_school = Clewiston (FL)
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| college = Virginia Tech
| draftyear = 2000
| draftround = 5
| draftpick = 134
| pastteams =
- Atlanta Falcons ({{NFL Year|2000}})*
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers ({{NFL Year|2000|2002}})*
- Minnesota Vikings (2002)*{{cite web |title=Anthony Midget |url=https://profootballarchives.com/transactions/m/midg00400.html |website=Pro Football Archives |access-date=21 December 2024}}
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- Lake Worth (FL) HS (2002–2006)
Assistant coach - Virginia Tech (2007)
Graduate assistant - Georgia State (2008–2011)
Defensive backs coach/special teams coordinator - Georgia State (2012)
Defensive coordinator/defensive backs coach - Penn State (2013)
Safeties coach - Houston Texans ({{NFL Year|2014}}–{{NFL Year|2017}})
Assistant secondary coach - Houston Texans ({{NFL Year|2018}}–{{NFL Year|2019}})
Secondary coach - Tennessee Titans ({{NFL Year|2020}}–{{NFL Year|2022}})
Defensive backs coach - Pittsburgh Steelers ({{NFL Year|2024}}–present)
Assistant secondary coach
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Anthony Midget (born February 22, 1978){{Cite web |title=Anthony Midget Stats |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/2265/anthony-midget |website=ESPN |publisher=ESPN Internet Ventures |access-date=March 14, 2013}} is an American football coach.{{Cite web |title=Anthony Midget Profile |url=http://www.houstontexans.com/team/coaches/anthony-midget/27bc9504-c7c4-4ea7-9752-b08b84ed3eb5 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906065951/http://www.houstontexans.com/team/coaches/anthony-midget/27bc9504-c7c4-4ea7-9752-b08b84ed3eb5 |archive-date=September 6, 2015 |website=HoustonTexans.com |publisher=NFL Interactive Media |accessdate=September 7, 2015}} He is the assistant secondary coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Virginia Tech. After a short-lived career playing professionally in the National Football League (NFL), Midget began coaching beginning at the high school level and then progressing from college to the NFL.
Playing career
Midget played high school football in Clewiston, Florida at Clewiston High School. From there, he proceeded to Virginia Tech, where he was a four-year letter winner and three-year starter.{{Cite web |last=Associated Press |title=Penn State hires Anthony Midget to coach safeties |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/news/penn-state-hires-anthony-midget-025820008--ncaaf.html |website=Yahoo! Sports |publisher=Yahoo! |accessdate=March 14, 2013}} After his senior season, Midget was named a third-team All-American, first-team All-Big East, and a member of the Big East All-Academic Team. A Dean's List student, Midget graduated with a degree in sociology in 1999.{{Cite web |title=Anthony Midget |url=http://www.georgiastatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=12700&ATCLID=1567119 |website=Georgia State Athletics |publisher=Georgia State University |accessdate=March 14, 2013 |archive-date=December 23, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223142034/http://www.georgiastatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=12700&ATCLID=1567119 |url-status=dead }} He was drafted in the fifth round of the 2000 NFL draft by the Atlanta Falcons.{{Cite web |title=2000 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2000/draft.htm |access-date=2023-03-19 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Goldberg |first=Dave |date=April 17, 2000 |title=Raiders focus on kicking game |work=The Charleston Gazette |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18562223.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415215909/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18562223.html |archive-date=April 15, 2016 |accessdate=March 14, 2013}}{{Cite web |last=Pianovich |first=Stephen |title=Anthony Midget named Penn State's safeties coach |url=http://www.collegian.psu.edu/blogs/footblog/2013/02/14/anthony_midget_named_penn_states_safeties_coach.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130409233959/http://www.collegian.psu.edu/blogs/footblog/2013/02/14/anthony_midget_named_penn_states_safeties_coach.aspx |archive-date=April 9, 2013 |website=Footblog - The Daily Collegian Online |publisher=Collegian |accessdate=March 14, 2013}} He also spent two seasons on the practice squad of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.{{Cite web |title=Bucs sign DT Gurley, CB Midget |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-51217833.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415230140/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-51217833.html |archive-date=April 15, 2016 |website=AP Online|accessdate=March 14, 2013}}
Coaching career
After his short-lived playing career, Midget began his coaching career in 2002 at Lake Worth High School in Florida where he held many positions culminating with being the assistant head coach and defensive coordinator.{{Cite news |last=Flounders |first=Bob |date=February 14, 2013 |title=Staff Set: Penn State coach Bill O'Brien adds Anthony Midget as defensive backs coach |work=Harrisburg Patriot-News |url=http://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefootball/index.ssf/2013/02/staff_set_penn_state_coach_bil.html |accessdate=March 14, 2013}} In 2007, he went back to his alma mater at Virginia Tech as a graduate assistant.{{Cite news |last=Smock |first=Doug |date=January 29, 2013 |title=Marshall Football: Herd adds defensive coach to staff |work=The Charleston Gazette |url=https://www.questia.com/read/1P2-34181658}}{{dead link|date=July 2021}} From Virginia Tech, Midget progressed to Georgia State where, from 2008 to 2011, he served as the special teams coordinator and defensive backs coach and in 2012 he served as the defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach. He was briefly hired in January 2013 to serve as a defensive assistant at Marshall, but before he coached a game at Marshall he was hired at Penn State to coach safeties.{{Cite news |last=Hockensmith |first=Dustin |date=February 27, 2013 |title=New Penn State safeties coach Anthony Midget: 'I demand my players be the best' |work=Harrisburg Patriot-News |url=http://www.pennlive.com/pennstatefootball/index.ssf/2013/02/new_penn_state_safeties_coach.html |accessdate=March 14, 2013}}
In 2014, the Houston Texans hired Midget as their Assistant Secondary Coach, and in 2018, he was promoted to Secondary Coach. On January 28, 2020, it was announced that Midget was hired as the secondary coach for the Tennessee Titans.{{Cite web |last=Moraitis, Michael |date=January 28, 2020 |title=Tennessee Titans hire Anthony Midget as new secondary coach: Report |url=https://titansized.com/2020/01/28/titans-hire-anthony-midget-secondary/ |access-date=January 30, 2020 |website=TitanSized.com}}
On January 9, 2023, the Titans head coach Mike Vrabel announced Midget had been fired.{{cite web|url=https://www.tennesseetitans.com/news/titans-part-ways-with-oc-todd-downing-ol-coach-keith-carter-secondary-coach-anth|work=TennesseeTitans.com|title=Titans Part Ways With OC Todd Downing, OL Coach Keith Carter, Secondary Coach Anthony Midget and Offensive Skill Assistant Erik Frazier|first=Jim|last=Wyatt|date=January 9, 2023|accessdate=January 21, 2023|archive-date=January 11, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111182929/https://www.tennesseetitans.com/news/titans-part-ways-with-oc-todd-downing-ol-coach-keith-carter-secondary-coach-anth|url-status=dead}}
On March 20, 2024, the Pittsburgh Steelers announced that they had hired Midget as their assistant secondary coach.{{cite web |last1=Varley |first1=Teresa |title=Steelers add to defensive coaching staff |url=https://www.steelers.com/news/steelers-add-to-defensive-coaching-staff |website=Steelers.com |access-date=20 March 2024}}
References
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