Colts coach search: 7th candidate interviewed

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The offensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions has joined the rising record of people that been interviewed for the Indianapolis Colts head coach job.

Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Shane Steichen and Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn have been interviewed Saturday.

Ben Johnson is the fifth interview, the workforce introduced Friday night time. Raheem Morris, defensive coordinator the Los Angeles Rams, was interviewed earlier Friday.

Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy have been interviewed Thursday.

Colts’ particular groups coordinator Bubba Ventrone was interviewed Wednesday.

Friday’s interviews have been introduced on the identical day Jim Irsay, the workforce proprietor and chief govt officer, issued a letter to followers saying partially “the underside line is we failed” within the just-completed 4-12-1 season.

Bieniemy, a New Orleans native who’s 53, joined head coach Andy Reid’s employees in Kansas Metropolis in 2013, getting his present job in 2018. The Colts announcement of the interview mentioned, “”Previous to being employed by the Chiefs, Bieniemy was the College of Colorado’s offensive coordinator (2011-2012), the Minnesota Vikings’ operating backs coach (2006-2009) and assistant head coach/operating backs (2010), UCLA’s operating backs coach (2003-2005) and the Colorado’s operating backs coach (2001-2002).” The San Diego Chargers selected the previous operating within the 1991 draft. He performed for the Expenses, the Cincinnati Bengals and the Philadelphia Eagles.

Evero, a 42-year-old United Kingdom native, spent 2022 because the Denver Broncos’ defensive coordinator. Evero beforehand has teaching roles for the Los Angeles Rams, the Inexperienced Bay Packers, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the San Francisco 49ers. “Evero started his teaching profession at his alma mater, UC Davis, as an assistant in 2005,” the Colts announcement mentioned.

Glenn, a Texas native who’s 50, has been aside of the Lions teaching employees since 2021. He started teaching in 2014 because the Cleveland Browns’ assistant defensive backs coach for 2 seasons. ” He spent 2016-2020 because the New Orleans Saints’ secondary coach earlier than following present Lions head coach Dan Campbell, who was on the Saints’ employees, to Detroit,” the Colts announcement of the interview says.

Johnson, 36, is a local of Charleston, South Carolina. He has been part of the Lions teaching employees since 2019. Beforehand, he labored for the Miami Dolphins for eight years. “Previous to the NFL, Johnson spent three seasons at Boston Faculty as a graduate assistant (2009-2010) and tight ends coach (2011),” the Colts announcement of the interview says.

Morris is a Newark, New Jersey, native who’s 46. He’s been with the Rams for 2 years, serving to the workforce win final 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl. Earlier than becoming a member of the Rams, he labored with the Atlanta Falcons and the Washington workforce. From 2009-2011, he was head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, by no means taking the workforce to post-season play and leaving with a 21-38 report. The Colts announcement of the interview mentioned, “Morris first joined the Buccaneers in 2002, the 12 months Tampa Bay received Tremendous Bowl XXXVII, as a defensive high quality management coach. He was additionally a defensive assistant (2003), assistant defensive backs coach (2004-2005) and defensive backs coach (2007-2008) for the Buccaneers. Morris was Kansas State’s defensive coordinator in 2006.”

A Pittsburgh native, Raymond “Bubba” Ventrone, 40, has been the Colts’ particular groups coordinator since 2018. “Ventrone this season guided the Colts by transitions at punter (from Rigoberto Sanchez to Matt Haack) and kicker (from Rodrigo Blankenship to Chase McLaughlin),” mentioned the announcement on Ventrone issued Wednesday. He performed for the the Patriots, the Cleveland Browns and the 49ers from 2007-2014.

Steichen, 37, is a local of Sacramento, California. The Eagles employed him as their offensive coordinator below head coach Nick Sirianni in 2021. “Steichen held a number of roles for the San Diego/Los Angeles Chargers: Offensive high quality management/extensive receivers (2014-2015), quarterbacks coach (2016-2019), interim offensive coordinator (2019) and offensive coordinator (2020). Steichen broke into the NFL with the Chargers in 2011 as a defensive assistant, a job he held for 2 years earlier than spending 2013 as an offensive high quality management/quarterbacks coach with the Cleveland Browns,” the Colts announcement mentioned.

Jeff Saturday was named interim head coach of the Colts in November after the firing of Frank Reich.