Joe Judge’s first staff with the Giants is shaping up and the first-year head coach looked to the college ranks to secure his defensive line coach, hiring Sean Spencer from Penn State, The Post confirmed.
Spencer worked with the Nittany Lions defensive linemen since 2014. He was given added responsibilities in 2018 as the associate head coach and run game coordinator in State College under James Franklin. Before that, Spencer coached the defensive line for Franklin at Vanderbilt.
Spencer, 49, is from Hartford and was a high school teammate of former Jets coach Eric Mangini. Spencer worked his way up the coaching ladder at Trinity, UMass, Holy Cross, Villanova, Hofstra and Bowling Green before landing at Vanderbilt.