Green Bay packers have hired Demarcus Covington As a defensive line / run game coordinator, Luke Getsy As the main assistant, Cory Harkey As a quality control traction of special teams, Jeremiah Kolone (Ka-Low-Nay) as an offensive assistant (minority scholarship), Jeff Koonz As a defensive assistant and Jamael Lett (pronounced Jamal) as a defensive quality control coach, promoted Sean Duggan (Dug-An) to the coach of the seconds and Sean Mannion to the quarter coach and moved Connor Lewis To pass the game specialist / game management. Head coach Matt Lafleur made the announcements Thursday.
Covington enters its ninth NFL season and first with the Packers after working for the New England Patriots in the past eight seasons. He worked in several roles for the patriots in his time there, first as a coach assistant in 2017-2018, then coach of the outside seconds in 2019, followed by the 2020-233 defensive line coach, then the defensive coordinator last season. While Covington was a position Coach and Defensive Coordinator from 2019-24, New England Ranked in the Top Five in the NFL in Total Defense (No. 3, 317.9 YPG), Passing Defense (No. 3, 204.4 YPG), Yards Allowed Per Play (No. 2, 5.1), First Downs Allowed per game (No. 2, 18.8), Interceptions (No. 2, 102), Percentage interception (No. 2, 3.1) and third defense (n ° 2, 37.0 pct.). Before his stay in the NFL, the former receiver of Samford University was a graduate assistant at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (2012) and Ole Miss (2013-14), led the defensive line of the University of Tennessee-Martin (2015) and was coordinated coordinator / coach of the defensive line in East Illinois (2016).
Getsy returns to the packers in a coach role after being a consultant for Green Bay for part of last season. Originally, he joined the packers as an offensive quality control coach (2014-15) and would continue to train wide receivers (2016-17) and quarter-rear (2019-21), and added the coordinator of the passage game (2020-21) to his positions of position. In his time between the relays with Green Bay, Getsy was the offensive coordinator / coach of the wide receiver for Mississippi State (2018) and the offensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears (2022-23) and the Raiders of Las Vegas (2024). Before his first visit with the packers, he led to the college level for seven seasons (2007-13). After his player career at the University of Pittsburgh and at the University of Akron, Getsy was a graduate assistant for the Zips (2007-08). In 2009, he was the attacking coordinator of Virginia-Wesleyan. Getsy returned to Pitt to serve as an offensive graduate assistant in 2010. From 2011-12, he was an attacking coordinator / quarter of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and in 2013, Getsy was the wide receiver coach at Western Michigan.
Harkey comes to packers after working as an assistant coach of special teams for Buffalo Bills in the last three seasons (2022-24). Before his stay in the NFL, he worked as a tight coordinator of the special teams / teams at Tennessee State (2021) and was the tight end of Azusa Pacific (2019-20). Harkey played in the NFL from 2012 to 16, appearing in 64 games with 28 departures for the Rams of St. Louis / Los Angeles after initially entered the league as a free non -drained agent of the UCLA.
Kolone joins the packers after a short period of time as an offensive analyst at the University of Florida Centrale (2025) and a season as an offensive graduate assistant at the University of Arizona (2024). As a player, the former offensive line player was initially signed as a free-drained free agent of the San Jose state by the Los Angeles Rams in 2018. Kolone spent time on the RAMS training team and the active alignment (2018-22), appearing in five games with two departures in 2022.
Koonz arrives in Green Bay after a long career as a college coach, including the last five seasons (2020-24) at the University of Virginia-Western as a coordinator of special teams and coach of the second interior. He also worked as a defensive coordinator of the Mountaineers for the last part of the 2024 season. Koonz came to Virginia-Western after being coach of the interior seconds in Ole Miss for the 2019 season. Before that, he spent two years leading the seconds in northern Texas (2017-18), adding coordinating coordinator tasks for the 2018 season. Koonz Three previous years in Cincinnati, leading to security in 2014 and seconds in 2015-2016. The native of Wallkill, New York, was also coach at the college of Louisiana Tech (2010-13), Texas (2009 and 2005-06), Iowa State (2007-08) and Auburn (2004).
Lett comes to packers after working as a defensive coaches assistant for the New England Patriots last season, his first year in the NFL. In 2023, he was an analyst in special teams at the University of Caroline du Nord and from 2021-2022, he worked as a coordinator of the special teams / defensive assistant in South Alabama. Lett led to the secondary to Akron in 2020 and his Alma Mater, Samford, from 2017 to 29. He also led to college at the University of Ohio as a graduate assistant in 2016 and as an assistant trainer at the University of Tennessee-Martin in 2015. Lett made his debut to train with Brainerd High School (Chattanoga, Tenn.) 2013, as a defensive coordinator while teaching mathematics at school. He then led to defensive rear at the Davidson High School (Mobile, Ala.) In 2014.
Duggan is promoted in his second season with Green Bay after working as a defensive assistant for packers last year. He came to Green Bay after spending the previous four years to his Alma Mater, Boston College, first as a seconds coach (2020-22) before adding the co-defensive coordinator to his functions in 2023. Before his training at Ohio (2019) and bossing lines at UMASS (2018) and at the University of Ohio (2016-17). He began his coach career as a defensive graduate assistant at Boston College. As a British Columbia player, Duggan appeared in 45 career games and was captain in 2014.
Mannion is promoted after working as an attacking assistant for packers last season. He played the quarter-Arrière in the NFL for nine seasons (2015-23) after being originally selected in the third round (n ° 89 in total) of the 2015 NFL recovery by the Rams of St. Louis. After four seasons with the Rams (2015-18), he played for the Vikings du Minnesota (2019-23) and Seattle Seahawks (2023). Overall, he saw the action in 14 games with three departures in his professional career. In college, Mannion made 43 departures at Oregon State, completing 1,187 of the 1,838 assists (64.6 pct.) For 13,600 yards and 83 affected. The honorable mention twice the All-Pacific-12 selection (2013-14) has established school records for the career via the TDS and the percentage of completion while ranking n ° 2 in the history of the conference in passing sites. In 2013, Mannion was tied for n ° 4 of the country via the TDS (37) and ranked n ° 2 in the country with 4,662 yards, a record of the PAC-12.
Adam Stenavich – attacking coordinator
Luke Butkus – Offensive Line
Luke Getsy – Senior Assistant
Eddie Gordon – Assistant offensive line
Rob Grosso – Offensive quality control
Connor Lewis – Pass game specialist / game management
Ryan Mahaffey – Wide receptors
Sean Mannion – Quarterbacks
Ben Sirmans – Running backs
Vrable Jason – Pass game coordinator
Jeremiah Kolone – Offensive assistant (minority scholarship)
Jeff Hafley – defensive coordinator
Derrick Ansley – Pass game coordinator (Defense)
Demarcus Covington – Defensive line game coordinator
Wendel Davis – Defensive quality control
Ryan Downard – Defensive backs
Sean Duggan – Secondors
Jeff Koonz – Defensive assistant
Jamael Lett – Defensive quality control
Vince Oghobaase – Deputy defensive line
Special team coach staff
Rich Bisaccia – Deputy coordinator of the head coach / special teams
Byron Storer – Special assistant teams
Cory Harkey – Quality control of special teams
Staff of strength and packaging
Aaron Hill – Strength and packaging coordinator
Todd Hunt – Assistant of Force and Packaging
Marcus Jones – Force and packaging assistant
Ben Schumacher – Assistant of Force and Conditioning
