Former Rutgers assistant Anthony Campanile hired by the Green Bay Packers

Anthony Campanile, a former Rutgers linebacker and assistant, is joining the Green Bay Packers.

Anthony Campanile is joining the Green Bay Packers where the former Rutgers football assistant will be on the staff of Jeff Hafley.

Hafley, who spent the 2011 season at Rutgers football as a defensive back, did not overlap during Campanile’s time at Rutgers (who spent four years with the Scarlet Knights beginning in 2012). Campanile most recently was with the Miami Dolphins, where he spent four years as the linebackers coach.

With the Packers, Campanile will be their linebackers coach.

Hafley is in his first season as the Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator. He was with Boston College before he returned back to the NFL.

 

Campanile is a former Rutgers football linebacker who was part of head coach Greg Schiano’s first rebuild of the program. His family is football royalty in New Jersey.

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His father is a former Paramus Catholic head coach  Three of his brothers coach high school football in the state. His brother, Nunzio Campanile, is a former Rutgers assistant who is now an assistant at Syracuse.