The Green Bay Packers announced on Thursday that they have promoted former assistant defensive backs coach Ryan Downard to safeties coach for the 2022 season. Downard has previous experience coaching safeties at the college level with the Bowling Green Falcons in 2017, his last college job before coming on with the Packers as a quality control coach in 2018.
Downard will be the first full-time safeties coach the Packers employ since the 2017 season when Darren Perry (safeties) and Joe Whitt (cornerbacks) split duties as secondary coaches. While Green Bay hasn’t officially announced it, the assumption is that Jerry Gray, who had the title of defensive backs coach/passing game coordinator in 2020, will be the team’s cornerbacks coach.