Mike Judge, a coaching veteran with extensive experience at both the collegiate and professional levels, joined Georgia Tech football’s coaching staff in 2026 as senior offensive analyst.
Judge boasts more than two decades of coaching experience in college football and the NFL, having most recently spent two seasons at San Jose State (2024-25) as tight ends coach and run game coordinator. He oversaw one of the nation’s most-improved rushing offenses in 2025, as the Spartans averaged over 30 yards per game more than they did on the ground the season prior. In his first season at SJSU, he helped lead the Spartans to a berth in the Hawai’i Bowl.
Judge returned to the college game in 2024 after spending five seasons in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins (2019-23), beginning as a quality control coach in 2019 and 20, then as assistant tight ends coach in 2021, as an assistant in the personnel department in 2022 and as an offensive assistant in 2023. The Dolphins posted three-straight winning seasons with Judge on their staff and snapped a six-season playoff absence by earning back-to-back postseason berths in 2022 and 2023. In his season as Miami’s assistant tight ends coach (2021), the Dolphins set franchise records with 122 receptions and 1,271 yards by the club’s tight ends. He worked alongside current Georgia Tech head coach George Godsey, who served as Miami’s tight ends coach from 2019-21, and was also on staff with Tech senior advisor Brendan Farrell, who was an assistant special teams coach for the Dolphins during Judge’s entire tenure with the club.
Prior to his four seasons in Miami, Judge spent 11 seasons coaching fullbacks at the U.S. Naval Academy (2008-18). During his ultra-successful 11-year stint at Annapolis, Navy had nine winning seasons, went 87-57 overall, beat archrival Army eight times, won the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy five times, made nine bowl appearances (winning five) and won the American Athletic Conference’s West Division championship in each of its first two seasons in the league (2015-16). The Midshipmen finished in the top six nationally in rushing in each of Judge’s 11 seasons with the program, including leading the nation in rushing in 2008 and ranking second in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017.
Navy set a school record with 11 wins and finished in the top 25 in 2015, broke program records for points (531), touchdowns (73), rushing touchdowns (61), total offense (6,136) and yards per play (6.8) in 2016 and rushed for a school-record 351.4 yards per game in 2017. He also coached the first all-conference running back in program history when Chris Swain earned second-team all-ACC honors after rushing for 1.023 yards in ’15.
Judge got his start in college coaching as Harvard’s wide receivers coach in 2007. Before that, he was a member of the New England Patriots’ coaching staff as a defensive assistant in 2005 and an offensive assistant in 2006. The Patriots won back-to-back AFC East championships during Judge’s two seasons on New England’s staff.
Judge played quarterback at Springfield College, where he was a four-year letterwinner in both football and baseball from 2001-05. During his collegiate career, he also interned with the Patriots.
He and his wife, Jennifer, have two sons, Brecken and Kagan, and a daughter, Kinsley.
