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The New York Giants are on the hunt for a new special teams coordinator and these are 8 potential candidates they could consider.
The New York Giants are in need of a new special teams coordinator after firing long-time assistant Thomas McGaughey on Monday.
Here are eight quick names the team might look at.
Note: Some of these candidates may currently be employed with other teams and would require termination (or resignation) before joining the Giants.
Thomas spent the last four seasons as the Lions’ defensive quality control coach
Another former Detroit Lions assistant coach has found a new team. Stephen Thomas is the new assistant special teams coach for the New York Giants.
Thomas spent the last four seasons in Detroit as the Lions’ defensive quality control coach. He now moves to Brian Daboll’s staff with the Giants. He’s one of two assistant special teams coaches for the Giants, along with Anthony Blevins. Detroit has one coach in that role, Jett Modkins.
The Lions already filled the defensive quality control coach role by promoting Wayne Blair to the position.
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The New York Giants hire Stephen Thomas as their assistant special teams coach and announce several other coaching changes.
The New York Giants have hired Stephen Thomas to serve as an assistant special teams coach.
Thomas will work under assistant special teams coordinator Anthony Blevins and special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey.
Thomas had spent the previous four seasons with the Detroit Lions as their defensive quality control coach. Prior to that, he served as inside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator at Princeton University for six seasons.
In the middle of his span with Princeton, Thomas spent one season (2015) as an assistant with the Philadelphia Eagles. He had also previously interned with the Buffalo Bills and coached at SUNY Cortland.
In addition to Thomas, the Giants also officially announced the hires of running backs coach Jeff Nixon, assistant offensive line coach Chris Smith, and offensive assistant Christian Daboll.
Meanwhile, the team revealed a few title changes and promotions.
Michael Treier, who was the assistant defensive backs coach last season, is now the safeties coach. Christian Jones is the new assistant quarterbacks coach after serving as an offensive assistant in 2022. And, finally, Angela Baker has been promoted from offensive quality control coach to offensive assistant.
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DeLeone is no longer with the team, and the Lions have internal options to replace him
There will be a change coming to the Detroit Lions coaching staff in the near future. Inside linebackers coach Mark DeLeone is no longer with the team, per Justin Rogers of the Detroit News.
DeLeone leaves after just one season in Detroit. It is unclear if he left the team by choice or if he was terminated. His name was scrubbed from the team’s website over the Super Bowl weekend, but the Lions have yet to formally announce any change.
Outside LBs coach Kelvin Sheppard is still with the team and could be a candidate to assume a larger role. Defensive quality control coach Stephen Thomas is a former collegiate LBs coach and jumped into the DeLeone role during the Senior Bowl, when the Lions were allowed to have coaches work at higher levels than previously done.
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