This offseason, the Detroit Lions’ teaching workers is getting ransacked. Dan Campbell has executed a superb job constructing it during the last three seasons. With group success comes coaches gaining reputation across the league. That’s the case for Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn.
Johnson was the offensive coordinator and has already accepted the top teaching job with the Bears. Glenn was the defensive coordinator and all indicators level to him being the subsequent head coach with the Jets. Members of the teaching workers will seemingly depart the group to hitch Johnson and Glenn of their new places. One other coach that’s anticipated to depart Detroit is Terrell Williams. The 2024 season was his first with the Lions and he’s becoming a member of a well-recognized face in 2025. Williams is trying up once more with Mike Vrabel and would be the subsequent defensive coordinator in New England.
The Lions are shedding Terrell Williams to the Patriots this offseason
Lions defensive position coach Terrell Williams, who labored with Mike Vrabel in Tennessee from 2018-2023, is leaving Detroit to turn out to be the Patriots defensive coordinator, sources inform @MikeReiss and me.
Vrabel thought so extremely of Williams that he had him function head coach of the… pic.twitter.com/sZdeQoT6NL
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 22, 2025
Terrell Williams has been concerned within the NFL since 1999 when he was an intern for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He additionally coached on the collegiate degree earlier than being employed by the Raiders in 2012. Willaims was the defensive position coach for 3 seasons in Oakland. From 2015-2017, he was the defensive position coach for the Miami Dolphins. Forward of the 2018 season, Williams was employed by the Titans to be their defensive position coach.
He held that posistion for 5 seasons. In 2023, Williams was promoted to assistant head coach/defensive position coach. After the Titans parted methods with Mike Vrabel, Williams left Tennessee and joined the Lions’ teaching workers. The 50-year-old had ties with Lions head coach Dan Campbell. They had been on the Dolphins teaching workers collectively in 2015. With Detroit in 2024, Williams was the defensive run sport coordinator/defensive position coach. Mike Vrabel accepted the top teaching job in New England and he requested Terrell Williams to be his defensive coordinator. Williams is somebody that Vrabel thinks extremely of. Throughout his last season in Tennessee, Vrabel made Williams the top coach for a preseason sport. Now, the important thing items of Vrabel’s teaching workers are stuffed.
