The 49ers didn’t have to look far to replace tight ends coach Jon Embree. Matt Barrows of the Athletic reported San Francisco is promoting offensive quality control coach Brian Fleury to the TE coach job.
Fleury joined the 49ers’ staff in 2019 as a defensive quality control coach, then moved to the offensive side in 2020. His first taste of NFL coaching action came with the Bills in 2013 where he worked as a defensive quality control coach.
In 2014 he and 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan were on the same staff in Cleveland where Shanahan was the offensive coordinator. Fleury was an assistant outside linebackers coach in 2014 before shedding the ‘assistant’ title the following year.
After a two-year stint with the Browns Fleury spent three years with the Dolphins in an analyst role. He was the team’s football research analyst in 2016, then their director of football research the next two years.
The tight ends coach job will be Fleury’s first as an offensive position coach. He replaces Embree who had the position in San Francisco for the last five seasons. Embree joined former 49ers offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel in Miami where McDaniel is now the head coach.
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