The NY Jets announced that they have hired four new assistant coaches. Here is the update and background information from the team.
Head coach Robert Saleh and the Jets have added four new assistant coaches to Saleh’s second-year coaching staff. Ben Wilkerson joins the offensive staff as assistant offensive line coach. Two coaches have been added to the defensive side of the ball — Greg Scruggs as assistant defensive line coach and Nathaniel Willingham as defensive assistant. And Dan Shamash has been named situational football/game management coordinator.
Wilkerson, who will work with offensive line & run game coordinator John Benton, most recently served as the Giants’ assistant OL coach from 2018-21, and before that with the same title on the Chicago Bears from 2015-17.