Aaron Glenn advised everybody to place their seat belts on throughout his introductory information convention. Now, we’re starting to search out out who’s driving the Jets bus with him.
The Jets agreed to a cope with Steve Wilks as their new defensive coordinator and Chris Banjo as their particular groups coordinator, sources confirmed.
Wilks, the previous head coach with the Cardinals, had been seen as the favourite to land the job since Glenn was employed.
Banjo has been the assistant particular groups coach for the Broncos for the previous two years.
Wilks, 55, is a veteran coach who has served as a defensive coordinator for the Panthers, Browns and 49ers.
He spent one season because the Cardinals head coach in 2018 and likewise served as interim coach in Carolina in 2022.
Wilks final labored because the 49ers defensive coordinator in 2023 however was fired after one season.
He was out of the league final 12 months. In 5 seasons as a coordinator or head coach, Wilks solely had a prime 10 protection in yards allowed or factors as soon as, with the 49ers in 2023, after they had been prime 10 in each.
Glenn stated Monday that he gained’t name the defensive performs, so Wilks is a key rent. Wilks can even assist Glenn alongside as a brand new head coach together with his expertise within the job.
Banjo, 34, had a 10-year taking part in profession within the NFL and overlapped with Glenn with the Saints from 2016-18, when Glenn was the defensive backs coach.
The Jets haven’t needed to rent a particular groups coordinator since 2016, when Brant Boyer took the job.
Wilks and Banjo are the primary massive hires by Glenn.
The brand new Jets coach is engaged on assembling his teaching employees alongside new basic supervisor Darren Mougey. The 2 are busy at work looking for the assistant coaches who will reshape the Jets below Glenn.
Glenn is hiring practically a very new employees. Most of the Jets coaches below Robert Saleh have landed different jobs already or been advised they gained’t be again.
Broad receivers coach Shawn Jefferson and passing recreation coordinator Todd Downing are the one high-level members of Saleh’s employees who would possibly return, in line with sources.
Glenn stated a number of occasions on Monday that the important thing to altering the tradition could be in regards to the individuals employed to work for the Jets.
“I can stand in entrance of a bunch of males and I can provide as many rah-rah speeches as I can, however tradition is about individuals and getting the suitable individuals within the constructing,” Glenn stated. “I noticed that firsthand with what Invoice Parcells did and that’s why the turnaround was so quick.”
Offensive coordinator appears like an important rent for Glenn, and Lions passing recreation coordinator Tanner Engstrand has emerged as the favourite to get the job, in line with sources.
Engstrand, 42, was seen as a doable substitute for Ben Johnson as offensive coordinator with the Lions, however Detroit employed former Jets offensive coordinator John Morton as a substitute.
Engstrand labored with Glenn in Detroit since 2021. Previous to that, he had labored below Jim Harbaugh in faculty.
It looks as if the probabilities of the Jets hiring Rams tight ends coach and passing recreation coordinator Nick Caley are fading.
He was the recent identify when Glenn initially received the job, however he has interviewed with the Buccaneers and Texans for his or her offensive coordinator jobs, however not the Jets but.
The Jets employed Lions tight ends coach Steve Heiden to be their new offensive line coach, in line with The NFL Community.
Heiden performed tight finish for 11 seasons within the NFL for the Chargers and Browns. He has coached the tight ends in Detroit for the previous two years.
Heiden has by no means been an offensive line coach, however he was the assistant offensive line coach in 2018 for the Cardinals.
The NFL Community additionally reported the Jets have requested to interview Commanders assistant quarterbacks coach David Blough for the quarterbacks coach job.
The Jets additionally interviewed former Titans defensive passing recreation coordinator and cornerbacks coach Chris Harris for the defensive coordinator job.
A supply indicated that Harris might be in line to be the defensive backs coach below Wilks.
