[5] Silverfield played for The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida for four years, winning state championships in 1995 and 1998.
[2] He then joined the coaching staff as an assistant for the 1999 season, ending his playing career.
[6] For the 2004 season, he served as the head coach at Memorial Day High School in Savannah, Georgia, whom he led to a 1–9 record.
[7] He then rejoined the college coaching ranks, as he served as the quarterbacks coach at Jacksonville University for one year and a graduate assistant at UCF for two, before joining the Minnesota Vikings staff, where he remained for six years in various positions.
[8] He remained in that position for two years before being tapped as the offensive line coach and run game coordinator in 2018.