The New York Giants had finally appeared set with their coaching and assistant hires, but now it’s back to the drawing board as they’ll need to find a new strength and conditioning coordinator.
On Saturday night, multiple reports surfaced that Aaron Wellman, who has spent the past four seasons in East Rutherford, has been lured away from the Giants and will join Indiana as their next strength coach.
Can confirm Wellman is leaving the #Giants for Indiana. He came on four years ago on heels of NYG struggling to mitigate/manage injuries. Made a huge difference immediately in 2016. https://t.co/W9LkpIGL20
— Pat Leonard (@PLeonardNYDN) March 8, 2020
After joining the Giants, Wellman completely revamped their program and helped bring the team’s strength and conditioning into the 21st century with the advent of GPS trackers, drones, nutritional plans, workout plans, machines and a new recovery schedule.
Initially hired by Ben McAdoo, Wellman stayed on through the transition to Pat Shurmur and then again, at least initially, to Joe Judge.
Wellman graduated from IU with a master’s degree in 1998 and had spent nearly 20 years coaching at the Division I collegiate level before joining the Giants. Some of his stops included Notre Dame, Michigan, San Diego State University and Ball State University.
At Indiana, Wellman will replace David Ballou, who recently left for the same position at Alabama.
As for the Giants, they still have assistant strength and conditioning coach Thomas Stallworth, director of performance nutrition Pratik Patel and performance manager/assistant strength coach Sam Coad on staff.
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