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Colts coaching staff tracker: Who will Shane Steichen hire?

Tracking the Colts coaching staff hires under new head coach Shane Steichen.

The Indianapolis Colts have already introduced Shane Steichen as the new head coach, and he’ll be working quickly to fill out the coordinator and assistant roles on the staff.

While we’ve learned of a few reported hires, such as offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter, there will be decisions to be made in all three phases. There’s a chance that defensive coordinator Gus Bradley and special teams coordinator Bubba Ventrone are retained, but that hasn’t been confirmed.

We will keep you up to date with the latest news in the coaching hires along Steichen’s staff, but it should be noted that nothing is official until the team announces it as so.

Here are the latest updates in the Colts’ coach staff hires:

4 things to know about Colts’ new RB coach DeAndre Smith

Here are four things to know about Colts’ new RBs coach DeAndre Smith.

With the Indianapolis Colts officially hiring Shane Steichen as their new head coach, the new leader of the franchise has begun to start to build out his staff on the offensive side of the ball.

The expectation is that Gus Bradley and Bubba Ventrone will remain with the team, but that has yet to be announced or reported.

The first coach reported to join Steichen’s staff is DeAndre Smith as the running backs coach.

Let’s take a look at four things to know about him:

Giants hire Laura Young, announce partial coaching staff

The New York Giants have hired Laura Young as director of coaching operations and officially revealed a portion of their coaching staff.

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The New York Giants announced some additions to their coaching staff on Friday.

Big Blue officially named their coordinators under new head coach Brian Daboll: Mike Kafka (offense), Don “Wink” Martindale (defense) and Thomas McGaughey (special teams).

The team also subsequently announced the hiring of some key assistants:

  • Quarterbacks coach Shea Tierney
  • Running backs coach DeAndre Smith
  • Wide receivers coach Mike Groh
  • Tight ends coach Andy Bischoff
  • Offensive line coach Bobby Johnson
  • Asst. offensive line coach Tony Sparano, Jr.
  • Defensive line coach Andre Patterson

In addition, the Giants announced that Laura Young has been hired as the team’s director of coaching operations. Young will be involved in “every aspect of football operations, including coordinating/organizing practice, as well as game day operations.”

“(Young will) have her hands all over the organization in terms of the coaching side,” Daboll said. “She’s with me every step of the way. She’s a rock star really, and I feel very fortunate that I get to work with her each day because she provides just a tremendous amount of support and value to really everyone, but myself the most, I would say.

“She’s smart, there’s really not a job she can’t do and a job she won’t do. That’s her mindset. Very humble, egoless, but driven, smart. I just think she’s the best.”

Daboll took a unique approach to assembling his staff. He leveraged several relationships from his time as offensive coordinator in Buffalo, but also hired coaches he had no prior relationship with.

“I think what you try to do when you’re putting together a staff, whether that be an offensive staff in a smaller form or the entire staff, you try to put together a group of people that will complement one another, whether that’s experience, whether that’s energy, whether that’s detail, whether that’s passion,” Daboll said. “You don’t want to have a cookie cutter approach and hire everybody that’s exactly the same. I think that you have to offset blind spots.”

Daboll will continue to add to his staff over the next week or two as the Giants prepare for the NFL combine later this month and free agency which begins in mid-March.

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