6 members of Vic Fangio’s old coaching staff have landed with NFL teams

Ed Donatell, Curtis Modkins and Chris Kuper are among the former members of Vic Fangio’s coaching staff who have landed new jobs.

By our unofficial count, the Denver Broncos parted ways with 14 members of Vic Fangio‘s coaching staff in addition to Fangio himself.

At the time of this writing, six of those coaches have landed gigs with other NFL teams.

Ed Donatell has accepted a defensive coordinator position with the Minnesota Vikings, assuming the same role he held in Denver.

Minnesota also hired ex-Broncos running backs coach Curtis Modkins (same role) and ex-Denver assistant offensive line coach Chris Kuper as their new OL coach. The Vikings also poached quality control coach Justin Rascati from the Broncos’ staff, giving him a promotion as an assistant OL coach.

Ex-Denver special teams coordinator Tom McMahon was hired by the Las Vegas Raiders as their new STC. Former Broncos assistant ST coach Chris Gould was hired by the Los Angeles Chargers to fill the same position he held in Denver.

Elsewhere in L.A., former Broncos assistant coach Chris Beake has joined the Los Angeles Rams as their new linebackers coach.

Perhaps the most notable former members of Fangio’s staff still available are offensive line coach Mike Munchak and offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur. Munchak and Shurmur both have head coach experience in the NFL.

As for Fangio, he is expected to take a year off from coaching.

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Chargers add 3 new coaches to staff

The Chargers added three new coaches to their staff, including one to oversee the offensive line.

The Chargers added three coaches to their staff on Saturday.

The team hired Brendan Nugent as their new offensive line coach, Chris Gould as the assistant special teams coach, and Mike Hiestand as an offensive assistant.

The move to bring in Nugent came after L.A. lost previous offensive line coach Frank Smith to the Dolphins, who now serves as their offensive coordinator.

Nugent recently served as the Saints’ offensive line coach since 2015. In addition, he assisted as the run game coordinator/tight ends coach alongside Dan Roushar.

During Nugent’s tenure with New Orleans, 10 Pro Bowl selections came from the team’s offensive line.

Gould, brother of 49ers kicker Chris, was recently assistant special teams coach for the Broncos.

Heistand formerly was Denver’s assistant to head coach/offensive quality control.