{"id":743151,"date":"2026-02-10T19:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/743151\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:58:19","slug":"chargers-to-hire-rutgers-olb-coach-as-new-asst-dl-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/743151\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers to hire Rutgers OLB coach as new Asst. DL coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Chargers have been steadily hiring new offensive coaches over the past two weeks and on Tuesday it was reported that they\u2019re adding a new name on the defensive staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel, the Bolts are hiring Rutgers outside linebackers coach Julian Campenni as their new assistant defensive line coach. He has spent the past two seasons with the Scarlet Knights and the prior five seasons at Bowling Green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Campenni is a former defensive lineman at UConn who played in 47 career games with 38 starts. He was named a team captain and was a Second-Team All-CUSA pick in 2015. After his playing career, Campenni began coaching at the high school level in Pennsylvania before going to be a graduate assistant at Boston College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rutgers\u2019 top pass rusher in 2025 was Eric O\u2019Neill, a former James Madison standout in 2024 who spent his final season with the Scarlet Knights. O\u2019Neill posted team highs of 9.5 tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chargers have been steadily hiring new offensive coaches over the past two weeks and on Tuesday it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2064],"tags":[241,7,1014,262,2453,2444,2443,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-743151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-chargers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-los-angeles","11":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","12":"tag-los-angeles-chargers-news","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-losangeleschargers","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116048108521210590","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743151","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=743151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}