According to reports, wide receivers coach Antwaan Randle El is departing to join former Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson’s staff with the Chicago Bears. Randle El will reportedly be the Bears’ assistant head coach and wide receivers coach.
Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown weighed on on how he thinks the team will fair after being hit by the NFL coaching carousel.
Ben Johnson is making progress building his staff two days after he was introduced as coach of the Chicago Bears. The former Lions offensive coordinator is bringing two assistants with him from Detroit.
Randle El spent the last four seasons as a wide receivers coach with the Detroit Lions. In Chicago, he will reunite with newly hired head coach Ben Johnson. Johnson and Randle El coached together in Detroit when Johnson served as the team’s offensive coordinator.
When former Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson left the team to become the head coach of the Chicago Bears, there was some expectation that he might take at least one other coach with him.
The Detroit Lions' coaching staff has undergone the biggest changes yet this offseason under fifth-year head coach Dan Campbell.
The football gods won't let you be happy for five minutes, will they? Just over an hour after news broke that offensive line coach Hank Fraley would be
Campbell hired Morton as a senior offensive assistant that season. It just so happened to be Johnson’s first year as an offensive coordinator and play caller. He was only 35 at the time. Considering Campbell had fired Anthony Lynn just one year into his Detroit tenure, it was crucial for him to get the next hire right.
Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell has hired former Stanford sideline boss David Shaw as his new passing game coordinator.
Tanner Engstrand has been the passing game coordinator for the last two seasons but has been linked to the New York Jets in recent days.
After Ben Johnson hired former Saints HC Dennis Allen as the Bears' defensive coordinator, the new DC explained how Chicago recruited him.