{"id":734109,"date":"2026-02-06T19:39:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/734109\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T19:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:39:31","slug":"detroit-lions-promoting-steve-oliver-to-new-tight-ends-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/734109\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions promoting Steve Oliver to new tight ends coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Detroit Lions have a new tight ends coach. It\u2019s a promotion from within, but maybe not the one you were expecting. Per NFL Network\u2019s Tom Pelissero, the Lions are promoting assistant offensive line coach Steve Oliver to tight ends coach rather than assistant tight ends coach Seth Ryan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Oliver has been with the Lions for five seasons. First, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prideofdetroit.com\/2021\/3\/25\/22350212\/detroit-lions-hire-steve-oliver-offensive-quality-control-coach?utm_campaign=prideofdetroit&amp;utm_content=chorus&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he started as a quality control coach in 2021<\/a>, then he got the promotion to assistant offensive line coach under Hank Fraley in 2023. He\u2019s helped Detroit put together one of the strongest offensive lines in the league in 2023 and 2024, before the unit took a step back last year following the losses of Frank Ragnow and Kevin Zeitler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s worth noting that this isn\u2019t Oliver\u2019s first time coaching tight ends. Prior to his time with the Lions, Oliver served as the tight ends coach at Idaho (2019) and the University of San Diego (2020).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, he\u2019ll have a key role on the Lions\u2019 staff. Not only will he be in charge of continuing the development of All-Pro Sam LaPorta, but under new offensive coordinator Drew Petzing, there is an expectation for Detroit to utilize two and three-tight end sets more often\u2014even though Detroit already utilized some of those formations higher than league average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is just the latest of several changes made in the Lions\u2019 offensive coaching staff. Here\u2019s what we know so far:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As of right now, there are no other known changes to the Lions\u2019 coaching staff, but Detroit often announces all of their changes at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions have a new tight ends coach. It\u2019s a promotion from within, but maybe not the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37982,153,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-734109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-detroit-lions-coaching-news-rumors","9":"tag-detroit-lions-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116025384223457083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734109","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=734109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}