This should be no surprise, as Duggan joined the Packers from Hafley\u2019s Boston College staff. In 2024, Duggan was the team\u2019s assistant linebackers coach, working under Anthony Campanile, now the Jacksonville Jaguars\u2019 defensive coordinator. When Campanile left Green Bay, Duggan was internally promoted to be the team\u2019s linebackers coach for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s uncertain what Duggan\u2019s role will be for Hafley, but unless he was named as the defensive coordinator by Miami, then the Packers could have blocked this move. Duggan was Hafley\u2019s co-defensive coordinator in their final season together at Boston College (2023). Before then, Hafley\u2019s defensive coordinator was Tem Lukabu (2020-2022), who is currently the Jaguars\u2019 linebackers coach on Campanile\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n
Duggan was just one of two coaches from Boston College that Hafley brought with him. The other is assistant defensive line coach Vince Oghobaase, who was BC\u2019s defensive line coach from 2020 to 2023. Prior to that, Oghobaase served as the San Francisco 49ers\u2019 assistant defensive line coach from 2016-2017, which overlapped with Hafley\u2019s time there as a defensive backs coach. Do not be surprised if Oghobaase ends up following Hafley to Miami, too.<\/p>\n
With Duggan, Hafley and Downard gone, here\u2019s what Green Bay\u2019s on-field defensive staff looks like right now:<\/p>\n
At the absolute minimum, the Packers will need a new linebackers coach. One name who makes a lot of sense is Nick Rallis, who was Gannon\u2019s linebackers coach with the Philadelphia Eagles (when Gannon was a defensive coordinator) and defensive coordinator with the Cardinals.<\/p>\n
On Gannon\u2019s Eagles staff, when he ran a 4-3 defense, he only had three on-field coaches: a defensive line coach, a linebackers coach and a defensive backs coach. In Arizona, when he ran a 3-4 defense, he had individual coaches in charge of the defensive line, outside linebackers, inside linebackers, cornerbacks and the overall secondary. Depending on how he wants the staff to be structured, we could see one or three assistants being added to Green Bay\u2019s defense, assuming that Covington and Ansley are retained.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia Eagles beat reporter EJ Smith has stated that Joe Kasper, now the Eagles\u2019 pass game coordinator\/defensive backs coach, was a coach that Gannon was interested in signing to Green Bay. Kasper served as the Eagles\u2019 safeties coach from 2024 to 2025 and was a quality control coach in Philadelphia in 2021, when Gannon was the team\u2019s defensive coordinator. So, it looks like the Packers do want to add at least one person to coach their secondary. Whether this means that someone will be replacing Ansley or if he will just be working under Ansley, as Downard did, has yet to be reported.<\/p>\n
For what it\u2019s worth, Ansley has prior experience coaching under a quarters-based system, which is what Gannon is expected to run. Ansley was Brandon Staley\u2019s defensive backs coach from 2021 to 2022 and his defensive coordinator in 2023 with the Los Angeles Chargers. Ansley\u2019s secondaries at the college level also ran a similar style of defense at Alabama (2016-2017) when he was a defensive backs coach and at Tennessee (2019-2020) when he was a defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This should be no surprise, as Duggan joined the Packers from Hafley\u2019s Boston College staff. In 2024, Duggan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,97481,2702,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-708136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-coaching-staff","12":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","13":"tag-greenbay","14":"tag-greenbaypackers","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115965348060054446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}