GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – The Packers are hiring Cam Achord as their new special team coordinator.
The 39-year-old was most recently the assistant special teams coach of the New York Giants from 2024-2025.
He won Super Bowl LIII as a member of the New England Patriots’ staff as their assistant special teams coach in the 2018 season as served as the Pats’ special teams coordinator from 2020-2023.
All told, Achord has 10 years of experience coaching special teams in the NFL, including four seasons as a coordinator.
Last season with the Giants, he helped coach a unit that returned 70 kickoffs for a single-season franchise-record 1,942 yards (27.7 avg.), surpassing the previous record of 1,688 yards set in 1964. The Giants’ 27.7 kickoff return average was the second-highest mark in a single season in franchise history and ranked No. 5 among all NFL teams in 2025.
In 2024, the Giants had two players earn NFC Special Teams Player of the Week honors. Isaiah Simmons was named the Week 5 recipient after he blocked Seattle’s Jason Myers 47-yard game-tying field goal attempt that Bryce-Ford Wheaton caught and returned it 60 yards for the clinching touchdown. Ihmir Smith-Marsette was the second Giant to earn the honor after he returned a kickoff 100 yards for a TD in Week 17.
In his last year as coordinator in New England, the Patriots finished #3 in the NFL with a 26.2-yard kickoff return average in 2023 while their coverage team was #6, allowing an average 20.6 yards. In 2022, Achord led a unit ranked #1 in the NFL with 418 punt return yards and #3 with 1,274 total return yards as rookie Marcus Jones earned first-team All-Pro honors from The Associated Press as a punt returner after he ranked #2 in total return yards (1,007) and punt return average (10.7 yards), and #1 in punt return yards (362), and had the longest punt return (84 yards). In 2020, the Patriots ranked #1 in Rick Gosselin’s annual rankings of all 32 NFL teams’ special teams.
Packers name Cam Achord special teams coordinator
— Green Bay Packers (@packers) February 27, 2026
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