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Roger Pollard is entering his fourth season as an NFL scout after spending most of the previous 14 years coaching in the collegiate ranks, including the 2000-02 seasons as the wide receivers coach at Columbia University. In the spring of 2003, he also interned in the NFL Europe League’s New York office. Pollard serves as the Dolphins’ BLESTO scout, while also scouting parts of the Northeast.
Pollard’s initial coaching position came in 1989 when he was named assistant secondary coach and head Junior Varsity coach at his alma mater, Hofstra University. After two years in that post, he moved on to Brown University, where he served the next three years (1991-93) as the Bruins’ linebackers coach and the Junior Varsity’s defensive coordinator. Pollard’s first head coaching position came in 1996, when he took over the reigns at Dean Junior College in Franklin, Mass. Following two seasons there, he spent one year (1998) as an assistant coach at Ridgeview High School in Orange Park, Fla., and one season (1999) as the wide receivers coach at Jacksonville (Fla.) University.
Pollard grew up in Long Island, New York, where he prepped at Maria Regina High School. He went on to letter one year as a defensive back at Rutgers University (1984) before transferring to Hofstra, where he also played one season (1988), and earned his degree in physical education. Pollard and his wife, Jennifer, have a son, Reed, and a daughter, Emmaleigh. The family resides in Clarence Center, N.Y. | 