Report: Patriots to Add Former Oregon Offensive Line Coach Adrian Klemm to Coaching Staff 

In response to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, former Oregon affiliate head coach and run-game coordinator Adrian Klemm is leaving the Geese to hitch the Patriots teaching employees. Klemm was Invoice Belichick’s first-ever draft decide as the pinnacle coach of the Patriots, successful three Tremendous Bowls in 4 seasons with New England as a second-round decide within the 2000 NFL Draft.

Following a six-year taking part in profession, Klemm started teaching within the collegiate ranks, the place he was the offensive line coach at SMU and UCLA earlier than becoming a member of the Steelers employees in 2019. After three seasons in Pittsburgh, Klemm spent the 2022 season in Eugene. Klemm was Oregon’s affiliate head coach, run-game coordinator, and offensive line coach final season.

With Klemm now within the fold, the Patriots offensive teaching employees is beginning to take form. Former tight ends coach Nick Caley is taking the identical place with the Los Angeles Rams, per the MMQB’s Albert Breeer. Caley’s contract reportedly expired this offseason, whereas the Pats employed longtime O’Brien assistant Will Lawing to doubtlessly fill the function. Primarily based on present info, the Pats projected offensive teaching employees might look one thing like this:

• Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks: Invoice O’Brien
• Offensive Line Coach: Adrian Klemm
• Working Backs Coach: Vinnie Sunseri
• Extensive Receivers/Returners: Troy Brown
• Tight Ends Coach: Will Lawing
• Asst. Extensive Receivers: Ross Douglas
• Asst. Quarterbacks: Evan Rothstein
• Asst. Offensive Line: Billy Yates

Though O’Brien additionally orchestrates the offense from a blocking perspective, Klemm helped design an Oregon speeding assault that wished to set a bodily tone. The Geese used a wide range of formations, motions, shifts, and an up-tempo unfold system to maintain the protection off-balance. From a run recreation standpoint, they had been an inside zone-based assault that blended in energy and counter schemes of their gun-run method, whereas run-pass choices had been additionally featured prominently.

After O’Brien’s two-year stint at Alabama and time spent as the pinnacle coach at Penn State, the Patriots bringing in one other offensive thoughts with a school background is engaging. New schemes usually trickle up from the school recreation to the NFL, so Klemm and O’Brien might deliver new wrinkles and taste to a system that has been considerably stale lately.

By way of participant growth, it stays to be seen what Klemm can do with youthful gamers comparable to second-year guard Cole Unusual and certain a number of rookies anticipated to hitch the crew this offseason. Oregon’s offensive line ranked first within the FBS with simply 5 sacks allowed in 13 video games in 2022, and Klemm has loads of expertise teaching up gamers.

The Patriots had an affinity for Klemm as they started making modifications to their offensive employees. The veteran offensive line coach was interviewed for the offensive coordinator place. When that went to O’Brien, he was introduced in for a follow-up interview to hitch the employees because the offensive line coach. Plus, the Pats gave Klemm a pay elevate to pry him out of Eugene.

New England lands a coach that, based mostly on their actions, they really feel is a rising star. Klemm joins the employees with over a decade of expertise teaching the offensive line and could possibly be somebody who trains underneath O’Brien to turn out to be an offensive coordinator candidate down the highway.