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Te XAN S<br />
Richard Hightower<br />
Special Teams Assistant<br />
5th NFL Season • 5th with <strong>Texans</strong><br />
coaches<br />
Richard Hightower enters his third season as a<br />
coach in the NFL and fifth overall with the <strong>Texans</strong>,<br />
serving as a special teams assistant.<br />
Hightower assists special teams coordinator<br />
Joe Marciano with game preparation and during<br />
practice. In 2006, Hightower’s role as coaching<br />
administrative coordinator allowed him to work<br />
closely with defensive backs coach Jon Hoke in<br />
addition to helping Marciano with special teams.<br />
Prior to joining the coaching staff, he worked<br />
in business operations side of the <strong>Texans</strong> front<br />
office as a corporate sales intern in 2004 before<br />
joining the organization full-time as the corporate<br />
development event coordinator.<br />
The 27-year-old Hightower is a native <strong>Houston</strong>ian<br />
and a 1998 graduate of MacArthur High in<br />
Aldine. He walked on to the football team at the<br />
University of Texas and earned three letters<br />
while playing wide receiver, where he played<br />
under current Chicago Bears receivers coach<br />
Darryl Drake. He also played defensive back and<br />
on special teams. Hightower’s dedication and<br />
work ethic earned him a football scholarship for<br />
his final season in 2002. Hightower and his wife,<br />
Lanet, live in <strong>Houston</strong>.<br />
Hightower’s C OACHI N G L E D G E R<br />
2008 Special Teams Assistant <strong>Houston</strong> <strong>Texans</strong><br />
2006-07 Defensive Assistant <strong>Houston</strong> <strong>Texans</strong><br />
Matt LaFleur<br />
Offensive Assistant<br />
1st NFL Season • 1st with <strong>Texans</strong><br />
Matt LaFleur enters his first season on the <strong>Texans</strong><br />
coaching staff and his first year in the NFL as an<br />
offensive assistant, handling many of the issues<br />
facing the coaching staff both on and off the field.<br />
On the field, LaFleur will assist Larry Kirksey with<br />
the <strong>Texans</strong> wide receivers. Prior to joining the<br />
<strong>Texans</strong>, he worked at Ashland University as the<br />
offensive coordinator, coaching the quarterbacks<br />
and wide receivers.<br />
LaFleur, 28, began his coaching career at Saginaw<br />
Valley State as an offensive assistant in 2003 before<br />
taking the same position at Central Michigan<br />
from 2004-05. He coached the quarterbacks and<br />
wide receivers at Northern Michigan in 2006.<br />
The Mt. Pleasant, Michigan-native played quarterback<br />
and wide receiver at Western Michigan<br />
from 1998-99 before transferring to Saginaw Valley<br />
State, where he was a quarterback from 2000-02.<br />
He played briefly in Omaha, Neb. and Billings,<br />
Mont. in the National Indoor Football League before<br />
beginning his coaching career. LaFleur and<br />
his wife, BreAnne, live in <strong>Houston</strong>.<br />
lafleur’s C O A C H I N G L E D G E R<br />
2008 Offensive Assistant <strong>Houston</strong> <strong>Texans</strong><br />
2007 Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks/Wide Receivers Ashland<br />
2006 Quarterbacks/Wide Receivers Northern Michigan<br />
2004-05 Offensive Assistant Central Michigan<br />
2003 Offensive Assistant Saginaw Valley State<br />
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