{"id":765608,"date":"2026-02-20T23:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/765608\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:54:16","slug":"giants-hire-ninth-strength-and-conditioning-coach-to-john-harbaughs-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/765608\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants hire ninth strength and conditioning coach to John Harbaugh’s staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Harbaugh stacked his new Giants<\/a> staff on Friday with a ninth coach in the strength and conditioning department.<\/p>\n

Sam Rosengarten is following Harbaugh to New York from the Ravens to become the Giants\u2019 new \u201cdirector of high performance<\/a>,\u201d the same title he held in his ninth and final season in Baltimore.<\/p>\n

This is an interesting title because it sounds similar to Aaron Wellman\u2019s<\/a>. Wellman is the Giants\u2019 \u201cexecutive director of player performance.\u201d Harbaugh already announced he was retaining Wellman from the previous staff.<\/p>\n

The team website still lists Wellman at the top of the Giants\u2019 \u201cstrength and conditioning \/ performance\u201d hierarchy, though, with Rosengarten as second-in-command and Ron Shrift \u2014 another Harbaugh Baltimore hire \u2014 on board as the \u201cdirector of strength and conditioning.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to Rosengarten, Harbaugh hired five football analysts on Friday: Skyler Mornhinweg, Taylor Kolste, Patrick Moynahan, Kyrell Michael and Bonner Bordelon. Mornhinweg is the son of longtime NFL coach Marty Mornhinweg.<\/p>\n

Harbaugh\u2019s nine-man strength staff now includes six holdovers and three new hires.<\/p>\n

Wellman, assistant strength and conditioning coach Chris Allen, performance manager\/assistant strength and conditioning coach Sam Coad, director of performance nutrition Matthew Frakes, assistant strength and conditioning coach Mark Naylor and assistant director of strength and conditioning Drew Wilson are back.<\/p>\n

Rosengarten, Shrift and assistant strength coach Brian Ellis are all new.<\/p>\n

The evolution of this crowded staff will be interesting to watch. Harbaugh\u2019s turnover of the building included a major shakeup in hiring new head athletic trainer Adam Bennett from the University of Miami, with Ronnie Barnes moving out of his longtime position to continue overseeing medical services in some capacity, per the team.<\/p>\n

Rosengarten has nine seasons of NFL experience, all with the Ravens. He held the same role in Baltimore, where he oversaw player monitoring systems, training load management, recovery protocols, and performance analytics.<\/p>\n

The Giants say he \u201cintegrated real-time biometric monitoring during practice, advanced player\u2011monitoring protocols and injury\u2011prevention strategies tailored to the demands of the NFL.\u201d And \u201chis expertise helped shape new data applications within the organization, driving innovation in injury forecasting and personalized athlete development to enhance player availability, optimize performance and support overall team success.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before arriving in Baltimore, Rosengarten led the Buffalo Sabres\u2019 injury\u2011prevention program for two NHL seasons and oversaw all day\u2011to\u2011day care of the players. He also has consulted previously for the NBA\u2019s Knicks and Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n

He seems to arrive with the credentials and title of someone who will one day run this department. For now, he is a part of a crowded collaboration as the Giants forge ahead and attempt to improve all operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Harbaugh stacked his new Giants staff on Friday with a ninth coach in the strength and conditioning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,2909,1917,56,2321,2469,6,109023],"class_list":["post-765608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-giants","tag-football","tag-giants","tag-john-harbaugh","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkgiants","tag-nfl","tag-sam-rosengarten"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116105660041134703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765608","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=765608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}