GREEN BAY — Cam Achord isn’t just the Green Bay Packers’ new special-teams coordinator.

Head coach Matt LaFleur’s hiring of him on Friday to succeed veteran special-teams coach Rich Bisaccia also made Achord the answer to a trivia question for the upcoming 2026 NFL season:

He was the final new coordinator added league-wide during the hiring cycle.

All 32 teams now have all their coordinators in place, and for LaFleur, that means the 39-year-old Achord will run the special-teams units; ex-Arizona Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon will be the defensive coordinator after being hired on Jan. 25; and Adam Stenavich, who started as the offensive line coach on LaFleur’s inaugural staff in 2019, will be the team’s offensive coordinator for a fifth season.

LaFleur has not yet announced his full staff, perhaps because he still has a few lower-level positions to fill. The only new additions to the staff that have been announced so far are Gannon and Achord.

Achord spent the last two seasons as the New York Giants assistant special-teams coach, but he made his coaching bones with the New England Patriots working for legendary head coach Bill Belichick.

Hired an assistant to then-special teams coordinator Joe Judge in 2018, Achord took over as Belichick’s special teams coordinator in 2020 after Judge was hired as the Giants’ head coach.

Achord ran the Patriots’ special-teams units for four seasons, with the group ranking No. 1 in Pro Football Hall of Fame columnist Rick Gosselin’s annual rankings in 2020.

Under Achord, the Patriots finished 18th in 2021, 16th in 2022 and 13th in 2023. Gosselin retired his rankings after the 2023 edition.

Pro Football Focus ranked the Patriots special-teams units 11th in 2020, sixth in 2021, 27th in 2022 and 20th in 2023. 

When the Patriots parted ways with Belichick after the 2023 season, Achord wasn’t retained by his replacement, Jerod Mayo, and landed with the Giants.

Achord becomes LaFleur’s fourth special teams coordinator as he heads into his eighth season as the head coach. Sean Mennenga held the post for two seasons, Maurice Drayton for one and Bisaccia for four.

Bisaccia stepped down as special teams coordinator and assistant head coach on Feb. 17, a decision that general manager Brian Gutekunst said caught the team by surprise.

The Packers chose Achord over at least five other candidates who also reportedly received second interviews this week: Ex-Los Angeles Rams special-teams coordinator Chase Blackburn, who was fired by head coach Sean McVay in December; Seattle Seahawks assistant special teams coach Devin Fitzsimmons; Arizona Cardinals assistant special teams coordinator Sam Sewell, who worked for Gannon the past three seasons; ex-Tennessee Titans coordinator Colt Anderson, who is headed into his second season as an assistant on the San Francisco 49ers’ staff; and New Orleans Saints assistant special teams coordinator Kyle Wilber.

Speaking at the NFL scouting combine earlier this week, Gutekunst said he viewed the fact that all 31 other teams had their coordinators in place as a “glass-half-full” situation instead of seeing it as challenging that so many qualified candidates had already taken jobs elsewhere before Bisaccia called it quits.

“This actually allows us to take our time. I think when you get into that coaching cycle, sometimes you’ve got to move fast without knowing everything you want to know about the candidates,” Gutekunst said on Tuesday. “Right now, we don’t have a lot of competition so Matt’s taking his time, being really thorough.

“The candidates that he’s bringing in, I’m pretty excited about. I know he’s going to spend some time with them this week and, hopefully, we’ll have that figured out sooner rather than later, but we’re not under any type of time crunch, which is nice.”

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