For the basketball player, see Mike Singletary (basketball).
American football player
Mike Singletary
Singletary with the 49ers in June 2009
No. 50
Position:
Linebacker
Personal information
Born:
(1958-10-09) October 9, 1958 (age 65) Houston, Texas, U.S.
Height:
6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight:
230 lb (104 kg)
Career information
High school:
Worthing (Houston, Texas)
College:
Baylor (1977–1980)
NFL draft:
1981 / Round: 2 / Pick: 38
Career history
As a player:
Chicago Bears (1981–1992)
As a coach:
Baltimore Ravens (2003–2004) Linebackers coach
San Francisco 49ers (2005–2008) Assistant head coach & linebackers coach
San Francisco 49ers (2008) Interim head coach
San Francisco 49ers (2009–2010) Head coach
Minnesota Vikings (2011–2013) Special assistant head coach & linebackers coach
Los Angeles Rams (2016) Defensive assistant
Trinity Christian (TX) (2018–2019) Head coach
Memphis Express (2019) Head coach
TSL Generals (2020) Defensive coordinator
Career highlights and awards
As a player
Super Bowl champion (XX)
2× NFL Defensive Player of the Year (1985, 1988)
NFL Man of the Year (1990)
7× First-team All-Pro (1984–1989, 1991)
Second-team All-Pro (1990)
10× Pro Bowl (1983–1992)
NFL 1980s All-Decade Team
Bart Starr Award (1991)
PFWA All-Rookie Team (1981)
100 greatest Bears of All-Time
Unanimous All-American (1980)
Consensus All-American (1979)
2× Davey O'Brien Memorial Trophy (1979, 1980)
2× SWC Player of the Year (1979, 1980)
3× First-team All-SWC (1978–1980)
As a coach
TSL champion (2020)
Career NFL statistics
Total tackles:
1,488
Interceptions:
7
Interception yards:
44
Fumble recoveries:
12
Sacks:
19
Head coaching record
Career:
NFL: 18–22 (.450) AAF: 2–6 (.250)
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR
Coaching stats at PFR
Pro Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame
Michael Singletary (born October 9, 1958), nicknamed "Samurai Mike",[1] is an American former football player and coach. He played as a linebacker for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for the Baylor Bears, Singletary was selected by the Bears in the second round of the 1981 NFL draft and was known as "the Heart of the Defense" for their Monsters of the Midway defense in the mid-1980s. He was part of their Super Bowl XX championship team that beat the New England Patriots. Singletary was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 1995 and into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1998.
Singletary later pursued a career as a coach, first as a linebackers coach for the Baltimore Ravens, then as the linebackers coach for the San Francisco 49ers. In 2008, the 49ers promoted Singletary to the head coaching position after previous head coach Mike Nolan was fired during the season, and he remained in that position until he was fired after the 49ers were eliminated from playoff contention[2] with one game remaining in the 2010 season. He has also coached for the Los Angeles Rams, the Memphis Express of the now-defunct Alliance of American Football (AAF), and a brief two-season stint as the head coach of a high school team.
^"San Francisco 49ers sack Singletary as coach after elimination". ESPN. December 27, 2010. Archived from the original on September 20, 2017. Retrieved September 19, 2017.
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