Robert "Bobby" Turner is the Washington Redskins

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 running backs coach

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. He held the same position in Denver from 1995–2009; he also worked for 20 years as a college assistant and has 39 combined years of coaching experience at the professional, collegiate and high school levels.

In his final collegiate coaching stop before moving to the NFL, Turner served as assistant head coach

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, offensive coordinator

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 and running backs coach at Purdue University

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 from 1991–94. Turner was the running backs coach at Ohio State University

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 from 1989–90; in this period, the Buckeyes reached bowl games in both seasons and had the top rushing game in the Big Ten Conference

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 in 1989.

Turner had previously worked as an assistant football and basketball coach at Kokomo, Indiana

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's Haworth High School from 1972–74. He moved to the college ranks in 1975, working for the Indiana State University

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 football program in various roles until 1982. In 1983, he went to Fresno State University

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, where he was the team's running backs coach through 1988. Turner grew up in East Chicago, Indiana

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and graduated from Indiana State University.