BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU coach Ed Orgeron has hired Jake Peetz as his offensive coordinator and DJ Mangas as passing game coordinator, luring both coaches away from the NFL's Carolina Panthers.
Peetz and Mangas, whose hirings were announced Wednesday, both worked as offensive assistants alongside Panthers offensive coordinator and former LSU passing game coordinator Joe Brady.
Brady helped spearhead the offensive game plans in 2019, when LSU went unbeaten and won the national championship.
This season, Peetz, who has spent 10 seasons in the NFL, served as the Panthers' quarterbacks coach. Mangas was an assistant this season to Brady, with whom he also worked at LSU in 2019, when he served as an offensive analyst.