Former NFL player, coach Dick Jauron dead at 74

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Dick Jauron, the former head coach of two different NFL franchises, died Saturday. He was 74.

The Chicago Bears confirmed the death. Jauron was the Bears' head coach from 1999 to 2003. 

He was previously diagnosed with cancer, The Daily Item in Massachusetts reported.

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Dick Jauron, head coach of the Buffalo Bills, watches from the sideline against the New England Patriots on September 10, 2006, at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts.  (Rick Stewart/Getty Images)

He became the Buffalo Bills' head coach in 2006, a role he maintained until 2009. The next season, Jauron was named the Philadelphia Eagles' defensive backs coach under Andy Reid.

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Jauron was a two-sport star at Yale in the early 1970s, and he was drafted by both the Detroit Lions in the NFL Draft and the St. Louis Cardinals in the Major League Baseball amateur draft. He ultimately made football his lifelong pursuit, beginning with five seasons as a defensive back in Detroit and three more with the Cincinnati Bengals before his retirement in 1980.

Head coach Dick Jauron of the Buffalo Bills looks on during the game against the Miami Dolphins on December 9, 2007, at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, New York. (Rick Stewart/Getty Images)

The well-liked Jauron moved into coaching and five years later was hired by the Bills as a defensive backs coach. He went on to coach defensive backs in Green Bay and became friends with Reid, who was an assistant