Joe Rudolph is the Tight Ends Coach of the Wisconsin Badgers

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 football team and former guard

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 in the National Football League

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Biography

Rudolph was born on July 21, 1972 in Charleroi, Pennsylvania

Charleroi, Pennsylvania

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. and is married to Dawn DeCaria Rudolph of Weirton West Virginia. Together they have two sons. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a team captain on the football team, and the Tepper School of Business

Tepper School of Business

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 at Carnegie Mellon University

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Professional playing career

Rudolph played with the Philadelphia Eagles

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 in 1995. After spending 1996 away from the NFL he spent 1997 with the San Francisco 49ers

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Coaching career

Rudolph's first coaching experience was as a graduate assistant with the Ohio State Buckeyes

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. In 2007 Rudolph served as Tight Ends Coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers

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. While there he also worked on special teams and oversaw the punt team. He joined the Badgers in 2008.