The Los Angeles Rams are bringing back a familiar face for the 2023 season. According to Field Yates of ESPN, Sean McVay is hiring Aubrey Pleasant as the team’s defensive backs coach and passing game coordinator.
Pleasant was the Rams’ cornerbacks coach for four years from 2017-2020, following McVay over from Washington after the Rams made him their head coach. Pleasant was then hired as the Lions’ DBs coach and passing game coordinator in 2021, spending a season and a half in Detroit before being fired in October.
He finished the 2022 campaign as a consultant with the Packers but was available this offseason, so the Rams came calling.
An assistant coaching return: the Rams are hiring Aubrey Pleasant as their DB coach/passing game coordinator, per source.
Pleasant returns to LA after serving as the Lions DB coach/passing game coordinator and then a consultant for the Packers for the second half of 2022.
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) February 16, 2023
Raheem Morris and Pleasant didn’t cross paths with the Rams the last two seasons but they’ll now work closely together. Morris is returning as the Rams’ defensive coordinator after not landing a head coaching job this offseason.
Pleasant replaces Jonathan Cooley on McVay’s staff after the Rams opted not to retain Cooley this offseason.
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