Miami adds special teams specialist Marwan Maalouf to its off-field staff

ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported on Sunday evening that Miami added veteran NFL special teams coach Marwan Maalouf to its staff. 

InsideTheU can confirm that Maalouf, who has spent time with the Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, and Indianapolis Colts since coming into the league in 2004, will be on Mario Cristobal’s staff but will not be considered an on-field assistant. Maalouf spent 15 seasons as either an assistant special teams coach or special teams coordinator.

Maalouf, 45, began his career as an assistant offensive line coach at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio in 200 before taking the same role at Fordham University.

The year after, Rutgers brought Maalouf in as an assistant offensive line coach and graduate assistant for two seasons before becoming a scout for the Browns. While in New Brunswick, Maalouf and Cristobal crossed paths while the Hurricanes head coach was an offensive tackles and tight ends coach and Maalouf was a graduate assistant.

In 2005, Maalouf got his first shot in the pro ranks as a special teams quality control coach with the Browns. After two years with the Browns, Maalouf was hired by the Baltimore Ravens to be the assistant special teams coach, where he spent three seasons before leaving to be a special teams coordinator for the first time in his career.

After a season with the Colts, Maalouf spent the next six years with the Miami Dolphins as an assistant special teams coach. 

He got another crack to be a special teams coordinator in 2019 with the Minnesota Vikings and he stayed in that role through 2020.