Panthers announce 5 additions to coaching staff on Thursday

The Panthers officially announced five additions to their coaching staff on Thursday.

The Carolina Panthers are putting the finishing touches on their all-star sideline.

As announced by the team on Thursday afternoon, five men have been officially named to head coach Frank Reich’s staff. Two of the five were first reported on last night—by Joe Person of The Athletic and Mike Kaye of The Charlotte Observer, respectively—in offensive assistant Michael Bercovici and defensive assistant Mayur Chaudhari.

Bercovici, a former quarterback for Arizona State University and the Alliance of American Football’s San Diego Fleet, comes over with three years of experience in a similar post with the Arizona Cardinals. Chaudhari, most recently, served as a special teams assistant for the Los Angeles Chargers in 2021 after spending three seasons in the same role with the Atlanta Falcons.

Joining them are Jamel Mutunga and Tyler Boyles. Mutunga, who was an offensive assistant with the Indianapolis Colts last year, will take up the same duties in Carolina while Boyles, a two-year assistant to Reich in Indianapolis, is on for offensive quality control and as an assistant (again) to the head coach.

As for the fifth name, the team has retained Bobby Maffei as a defensive quality control coach. He, under former interim head coach Steve Wilks, worked with the safeties to close out the 2022 campaign.

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Colts assistant Jamel Mutunga hired by Temple

Colts assistant coach Jamel Mutunga was hired by Temple as the RBs coach.

Indianapolis Colts assistant offensive coach Jamel Mutunga was hired by Temple University to be their running backs coach, according to Brandon Marcello of 247Sports on Tuesday.

Mutunga, who was the offensive Dungy Fellow, joined the Colts’ coaching staff during the 2022 offseason as one of two Tony Dungy Diversity Coaching Fellows along with Brent Jackson, who served as the defensive Dungy Fellow.

Mutunga has gone between college and the NFL over the last decade, spending the majority of his time in the latter ranks.

He served as Rutgers’ offensive quality control coach for three seasons (2020-2022). Before that, he spent three seasons (2017-2019) as Princeton’s running backs/kickoff return coach and another three seasons as Lehigh’s running backs coach (2014-2016) and he was Muhlenberg College’s tight ends/halfbacks coach (2012-2013).

Mutunga also was a Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellow with the New York Jets (2014) and Atlanta Falcons (2019).

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