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The New York Giants’ hunt for a new offensive line coach continues this week and one of the upcoming interviews will be conducted in-house.
ESPN’s Jordan Raanan reports that assistant offensive line coach Ben Wilkerson will interview for the full-time role.
Asst. OL coach Ben Wilkerson is expected to be among those to interview for the vacant Giants offensive line coach position, per source. Joe Judge said during the season he was a “good, young coach.” Made contract arrangements last offseason to keep him.
— Jordan Raanan (@JordanRaanan) February 3, 2021
As Raanan alludes, head coach Joe Judge has been impressed with Wilkerson and would like to keep him in East Rutherford.
“I have a tremendous amount of confidence in Ben. He’s a good coach. He’s a good, young coach. Draws from a knowledge of playing the game. He’s a very good communicator. He has a very good passion for the game. The players respond to him very well. He’s great on the field with technique instruction, and he’s very good in terms of communicating and forming relationships off the field,” Judge said in early January.
“Look, this is a guy, to be honest with you, when I got here last year, Ben was down at the East-West Shrine Game coaching. We had more requests put in for Ben Wilkerson last year while he was down there. This is a deal where I talked to him before he went down there, I said, ‘I won’t make any moves on the staff without talking to you first.’ Then we agreed when he got back that I would like him to stay, he wanted to stay, we made some arrangements with the contract, and I’m glad to have him on our staff going forward. This is a guy that obviously we want in the program. He’s going to help us going forward.”
After Dave DeGuglielmo contracted COVID-19 and was forced to remain home during Week 17, it was Wilkerson who stepped in to coach the offensive line.
In addition to Wilkerson, the Giants are also going to interview Mike Devlin for the position.
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