SEATTLE — The Seahawks plan to rent former Buffalo Payments defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier as their assistant head coach, a supply confirmed to ESPN on Friday.
Frazier turns into the primary assistant recognized to be employed to Mike Macdonald’s workers. The 2 will reunite in Seattle after teaching along with the Baltimore Ravens in 2016, when Macdonald had the title of defensive assistant and Frazier was the secondary coach.
Macdonald, employed Wednesday after spending the previous two seasons as Baltimore’s defensive coordinator, is the NFL’s youngest head coach at 36. Frazier, 64, brings over twenty years of NFL teaching expertise to Seattle. He has been a defensive coordinator for 4 completely different groups, most lately filling that position for the Payments from 2017 to ’22 whereas additionally holding the title of assistant head coach from 2020 to ’22.
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Frazier was additionally the Minnesota Vikings’ head coach from 2011 to ’13. He didn’t coach in 2023.
Throughout his introductory information convention Thursday, Macdonald mentioned he plans to name defensive performs at first and ultimately hand over these duties to a coordinator.
Former Ravens linebackers coach Zachary Orr was a candidate to fill that position on Macdonald’s workers earlier than Baltimore promoted him to DC, a supply advised ESPN.
The NFL Community first reported Seattle’s plans to rent Frazier.
ESPN’s Jamison Hensley contributed to this report.
