Former Georgia football legend Hines Ward enters collegiate coaching ranks

Q&A with Hines Ward, former Georgia football player and Pittsburgh Steelers' wide receiver 090316 Atlanta: Georgia Bulldogs head coach Kirby Smart jokess with former Bulldog and NFL star Hines Ward before taking on the North Carolina Tar Heels in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game at the Georgia Dome Saturday September 3, 2016. BRANT SANDERLIN/BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM (Brant Sanderlin)

April 21, 2021 at 8:03 p.m. UTC

By Mike Griffith

ATHENS — Former Georgia football star and Super Bowl champion Hines Ward has entered the collegiate coaching ranks at Florida Atlantic.

Ward will be working as an on-field coach at the Boca Raton school located in southern Florida for Owls’ head coach Will Targgert after spending the past two seasons as a full-time assistant in the NFL with the N.Y. Jets, per The Owls Nest website.