{"id":731282,"date":"2026-02-05T14:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/731282\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:32:21","slug":"washington-commanders-hire-new-defensive-run-game-coordinator-dl-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/731282\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Commanders hire new defensive run game coordinator\/DL coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Commanders hired Daronte Jones as their new defensive coordinator, and more changes to his coaching staff were reported last night. Several coaches have already found new jobs, including former DC Joe Whitt Jr.<\/a> Washington also reportedly moved on from a few more coaches<\/a> who haven\u2019t found a new team.<\/p>\n

The Commanders are reportedly hiring former Los Angeles Rams defensive line coach\/run game coordinator Eric Henderson for the same position in Washington. He helped the Rams win their first Super Bowl since moving back to LA. He was Aaron Donald\u2019s coach when he was dominating offensive lines, and now comes to Washington to work with Daron Payne, Javon Kinlaw, and Johnny Newton.<\/p>\n

Henderson spent the last two years as USC\u2019s co-defensive coordinator, defensive line coach and run game coordinator. Before that he was with the Rams for five years, and he got his NFL coaching break with the other team from Los Angeles. Henderson also played in the NFL for three seasons with the Cincinatti Bengals.<\/p>\n

The Washington Commanders previous DL coach was Darry Tapp, and he will be \u201creassigned\u201d to assistant DL coach. That job was filled by Sharrif Floyd, but he was one of the three coaches the team was reportedly moving on from. Tapp and Floyd both came to Washington when Dan Quinn was hired as head coach. Tapp was also a former Washington Redskins player(2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Commanders hired Daronte Jones as their new defensive coordinator, and more changes to his coaching staff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,7,6,855,111,10421,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-731282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-commanders","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-washington","12":"tag-washington-commanders","13":"tag-washington-commanders-news","14":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116018514755259539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731282","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=731282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}