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USA Today
18-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Lions announce full coaching staff for 2025 with several new hires
With a week to go before the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine, the Detroit Lions have formally finalized their coaching staff for the coming season. The Lions updated coaching list includes several names not previously publicly reported. First, the full list from the Lions press release: Among the coaches new to Detroit are offensive coordinator John Morton and defensive line coach/run game coordinator Kacy Rodgers, plus tight ends coach Tyler Roehl, running backs coach Tashard Choice, and offensive assistant Bruce Gradkowski. Some recent additions that haven't been widely reported or confirmed before this press release include offensive assistant Marques Tuiasosopo, offensive quality control coach Justin Mesa and defensive assistants August Mangin and Caleb Collins. Tuiasosopo effectively fills the vacancy created when J.T. Barrett left with former OC Ben Johnson to the Chicago Bears. The former UCLA quarterback has been coaching various offensive positions for over a decade, including work with the Rice QBs for the last few seasons. Mesa has worked with wide receivers, tight ends and special teams at Washington State for the last four years and has also served as a high school head coach. Collins is an outside LB coach, where he's worked at Baylor since 2020. He's a former college LB himself. Mangin comes from the San Francisco 49ers and has primarily worked with special teams and game management in his four years with San Francisco. He was a college teammate of DC Kelvin Sheppard at LSU.
USA Today
06-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Bucs hire former Texas Longhorns HC as defensive line coach
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers went big-name fishing to replace Kacy Rodgers, who left for the Detroit Lions. They chose a name familiar to the Tampa Bay area and with experience coaching at the top level of football. Rick Stroud of The Tampa Bay Times reported on Wednesday night that the team was hiring Charlie Strong as their new defensive line coach. Strong is know for being a college head coach with the Texas Longhorns, Louisville Cardinals, and USF Bulls. He has a head coaching record of 70-49, but his best work may have come as an assistant. He has two National Championships in those roles and has been coaching since 1983. Strong has NFL experience coaching with Urban Meyer at the Jacksonville Jaguars as their assistant head coach inside linebacker coach. Strong was a defensive line coach before during a stint at Notre Dame, where he held the job from 1995 to 1998. He coached four Fighting Irish defensive linemen into NFL players during his time there. Strong now returns to Tampa Bay with a defensive line headlined by Vita Vea and Calijah Kancey, and expectations to improve others in the position group as well.
