The B.C. Lions named Dennis McKnight the new special teams coordinator on Monday. This hiring comes a couple of weeks after the team fired special teams coordinator Cory McDiarmid.
Dennis McKnight is 66 years old and is from Dallas, Texas. He played 11 seasons in the NFL for the San Diego Chargers (1982-89), Detroit Lions (1990, 1992), and the Philadelphia Eagles (1991) as an offensive lineman. He played college football at Drake and went undrafted in the 1981 NFL Draft and was a Graduate Assistant at Southeast Missouri State in 1981.
McKnight brings over 20 years of coaching experience, having stops with the Edmonton Eskimos (2011), Hamilton Tiger-Cats (2017-19), Houston Roughnecks (2020), and the Seattle Sea Dragons (2023). He most recently was the special teams coordinator for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 2024 to 2026.
In college, McKnight had stops at Hawaii (1999-2000, 2006-07), Grossmont (2001-03), San Diego State (2005), Southern Methodist (2008-10), Lamar (2012-13) and Washington State (2021).
