Former Patriots assistant coach Joe Judge has joined the football staff at Ole Miss, according to reports.

Judge is expected to be a senior analyst at Mississippi, per ESPN. Last year, he served as the Patriots’ assistant head coach under Bill Belichick and helped coach special teams. Judge previously worked with the team’s quarterbacks in 2022, a disastrous offensive campaign that led to his re-assignment and the departure of then offensive play-caller Matt Patricia.

Judge spent most of his time in New England as the team’s special teams coordinator from 2015-2019. Judge originally joined the organization as a special teams assistant in 2012, after working in the same capacity at Alabama from 2009-11. He got his start in coaching as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, Mississippi State, and later spent one season at Birmingham-Southern in 2008.

Judge’s most notable coaching stint, as the head coach of the Giants from 2020-21, ended with an unceremonious firing in New York that led him back to New England.

Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin has made a concerted effort this offseason to add assistants with previous ties to Belichick and retired Alabama coach Nick Saban. Ole Miss Spirit first reported Judge’s addition.