Long-time NFL safety Rashad Johnson may have announced his retirement from playing football in January, but his career in the league is really only just getting started.

Six months after hanging up his cleats, Johnson will now be given a whistle and a clipboard as a training camp coach for the New York Giants.

What Johnson’s exact role will be or what positional unit he’ll be helping coach is unclear, but for obvious reasons, he’s most likely to work with the safeties and other defensive backs.

A third-round pick of the Cardinals in the 2009 NFL Draft, Johnson spent the first seven years of his career in Arizona before joining the Tennessee Titans in 2016, where he remained until retirement.

In three of Johnson’s seven seasons with the Cardinals, he worked with current Giants defensive coordinator James Bettcher, who was Arizona’s outside linebackers coach from 2013-2014 and defensive coordinator from 2015-2017.

In 114 career games, Johnson recorded 383 tackles, eight stuffs, 31 passes defensed, 15 interceptions and one sack. And about half of that came after the safety lost a part of his left middle finger during a game in 2013.