INDIANAPOLIS -- The New Orleans Saints convinced veteran special teams coach Mike Westhoff to come out of retirement to help the team during the 2017 season.
Now, the Saints hope Westhoff will return to continue coaching special teams in 2018.
"The plan is hopefully to bring him back," coach Sean Payton said Thursday.
One hitch in that plan, though, is that the 70-year-old Westhoff is recovering from a "significant" surgery, Payton said. The operation was to fix an issue starting from Westhoff's hip and going all the way down his leg.
When Westhoff joined the Saints last November, he said part of the reason he had retired was that he didn't want to go through a full year of work.