Just because I was out of town over the weekend doesn’t mean the Panthers stopped building their new coaching staff. Since hiring Thomas Anthony on Friday, they have officially hired or retained a number of assistant coaches on both sides of the ball.
Shawn Jefferson was named as wide receivers coach, bringing 17 years of NFL coaching experience to the table; Robert Kugler was officially retained as James Campen’s assistant OL coach; former Pro Bowl defensive back and 15-year NFL veteran Deangelo Hall was hired as a first time coach in the assistant defensive back coach role under Jonathan Cooley; Tem Lukabu was hired as outside linebackers coach after a couple years of defensive coordinator experience at Boston College and NFL linebackers coaching experience prior to that; Todd Wash joined the team as defensive line coach after ten years of with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Detroit Lions, including as defensive coordinator with the Jaguars from 2016-2020; and Bert Watts was named as safeties coach after coaching with Ejiro Evero as a linebackers coach in Denver last season and having ten years of college assistance roles prior to that.