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Saints defensive assistant coaching National Team LBs at Senior Bowl

New Orleans Saints defensive assistant Adam Gristick is going to be coaching the National Team linebackers at the 2025 Reese’s Senior Bowl.

New Orleans Saints defensive assistant Adam Gristick is going to get a chance to coach linebackers at the 2025 Reese’s Senior Bowl next week.

On Friday afternoon, the Senior Bowl announced that Gristick would be the linebacker coach for the National Team. With that being a key need for the Saints in the 2025 NFL draft, this could provide some key insight into some intriguing players at the position.

The linebackers on that team include Jeffery Bassa, Cody Lindenberg and Martin Nickolas, but there are also a handful of edge rushers and safeties shared within the group that Gristick might get to work with.

This was his second season in New Orleans as an assistant and should provide key experience for his future. It is unclear what his job status will be with the Saints in particular with the shakeup in coaching this offseason.

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Several Saints assistants working with 2024 draft prospects at Shrine Bowl

Several Saints assistant coaches are working with 2024 draft prospects at the East-West Shrine Bowl. New Orleans added 8 players from last year’s event:

The New Orleans Saints will have a heavy presence at this year’s East-West Shrine Bowl, which makes sense given how many future NFL players have participated in the event. And the 2024 draft class is following that pattern.

Three Saints assistant coaches have been assigned to work with draft prospects at this year’s Shrine Bowl, all on the West Team. It’s as good an opportunity for future pros to work with NFL coaches as it is for each of these men to advance their careers.

Here’s a quick look at them and the players they’ll be working with:

Saints hire Eastern Illinois DC Adam Gristick as a defensive assistant

The Saints hired former Eastern Illinois defensive coordinator Adam Gristick as an assistant. EIU’s NFL pipeline includes Sean Payton, Tony Romo, and Jimmy Garoppolo:

Dennis Allen isn’t quite finished building his New Orleans Saints coaching staff. The Saints have hired former Eastern Illinois defensive coordinator Adam Gristick as a defensive assistant, per ESPN’s Katherine Terrell — Gristick was one of two coaches retained last year by new EIU head coach Chris Wilkerson, having been promoted to the coordinator role after coaching linebackers for four years. Before taking this job at his alma mater, Gristick started his coaching career at Missouri State and Syracuse.

So he’s an assistant on the rise. EIU has been a surprising NFL pipeline over the years; its alumni include Sean Payton, Tony Romo, and Jimmy Garoppolo. Maybe Gristick can make a positive impact on the Saints. New Orleans has a widely-respected linebackers coach in Michael Hodges, but he’s a candidate to leave in a few years for a coordinator job of his own (much like Aaron Glenn and Ryan Nielsen before him). It makes sense to bring in Gristick as a candidate to replace him if Hodges isn’t long for New Orleans.

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