The Buffalo Bills have hired Kyle Shurmur to their coaching staff as a defensive quality control coach, according to ESPN’s Field Yates.
Shurmur is the son of former Cleveland Browns and New York Giants head coach Pat Shurmur, who was most recently the quarterbacks coach for the Denver Broncos in 2021.
The younger Shurmur starts his coaching career on the opposite side of the ball he’s associated with.
Shurmur, 25, was a QB at Vanderbilt and signed with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2019 after going undrafted at that year’s draft. That was a year after the Bills selected quarterback Josh Allen in the first round of the 2018 NFL draft.
Shurmur also played with the Cincinnati Bengals and most recently with the Washington Football Team in 2021.
The elder Shurmur worked with Buffalo head coach Sean McDermott during their time on Andy Reid’s coaching staff in Philadelphia with the Eagles. It’s likely that connection played a big part in this hiring.
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