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Report: New York Giants to hire Freddie Roach as defensive line coach

On the heels of reports that Jerry Schuplinski will become New York Giants quarterbacks coach, another report has broken that the Giants will hire Freddie Roach to coach the defensive line.

Roach was defensive line coach at Ole Miss for the past three seasons. He is familar to head coach Joe Judge because he was strength and conditioning coach at Alabama from 2008-2010. Judge was an assistant at Alabama from 2009-2011.

Roach was defensive line/strength coach at East Mississippi CC in 2011, defensive line coach at Murray State in 2012, linebackers/defensive ends coach at South Alabama in 2013-14 and director of player development at Alabama in 2015-16 before spending the last three seasons at Ole Miss.