{"id":760402,"date":"2026-02-18T13:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/760402\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:51:18","slug":"patriots-hire-former-intern-to-their-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/760402\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots hire former intern to their coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The New England Patriots have made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patspulpit.com\/patriots-coaching-staff-tracker\/122284\/rumors-news-hires-departures-interviews-analysis-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first addition to their coaching staff<\/a> this offseason, and it comes in the form of a familiar face. B.J. Edmonds, who spent time with the team last summer as a coaching intern, was hired in an undisclosed role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Edmonds joining the Patriots comes only a month after he was announced as running backs coach at Southern Miss. Pete Thamel of ESPN was first to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeteThamel\/status\/2023943498185994369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">report<\/a> the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A cornerback during his four-year college career at Arkansas State, Edmonds went into coaching in 2020 as a defensive graduate assistant at Kansas Wesleyan. He moved to Utah State the following year and spent the next three seasons in the same role. In 2024, he joined Duke as a defensive analyst primarily working with the Blue Devils\u2019 cornerback group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Patriots hiring Edmonds is the latest change to their coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patspulpit.com\/new-england-patriots-news\/122279\/patriots-promote-zak-kuhr-to-full-time-defensive-coordinator\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">promoted Zak Kuhr to defensive coordinator<\/a> after moving previous DC Terrell Williams to what has been called a \u201chigh-ranking role\u201d on the staff. In addition, Vinny DePalma was hired to fill Kuhr\u2019s former job as inside linebackers coach after spending the last two years as a defensive assistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots have made a first addition to their coaching staff this offseason, and it comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,95588,726,4834,2326,2094,6,208,107539],"class_list":{"0":"post-760402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-england","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-new-england-patriots-coaching-staff","12":"tag-new-england-patriots-news","13":"tag-new-england-patriots-offseason-coverage","14":"tag-newengland","15":"tag-newenglandpatriots","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-patriots","18":"tag-patriots-coaching-staff-tracker"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116091963995257552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760402","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=760402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}