Special teams is the part of an average NFL game that most fans take for granted, and the Detroit Lions took a big step in improving that unit this weekend by hiring Brayden Coombs to be their special teams coordinator.
Coombs comes to the Lions from the Cincinnati Bengals, where he has spent the last decade mostly as a special teams assistant with brief stints as an offensive assistant and quality control on the offensive and defensive side.
While the Cincinnati earned the No. 1 pick in the draft by being a truly horrible football team, they were surprising decent on special teams, partially thanks to Coombs.