{"id":767513,"date":"2026-02-21T21:48:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/767513\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T21:48:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:48:55","slug":"packers-special-teams-coordinator-interview-tracker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/767513\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers special teams coordinator interview tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Green Bay Packers are up to four scheduled interviews for Rich Bisaccia\u2019s replacement, after Bisaccia stepped down as special teams coordinator on February 17th<\/a>. It\u2019s time to start the interview tracker and take a look at the names that head coach Matt LaFleur is bringing in to lead the kicking game.<\/p>\n

All of these interviews have been reported by Sports Illustrated\u2019s Bill Huber<\/a>, unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n

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Cameron Achord (free agent)Seasons as special teams coordinator<\/p>\n

Cameron Achord spent the last two years with the New York Giants as the team\u2019s assistant special teams coach, but he wasn\u2019t retained by new head coach John Harbaugh in 2026. Achord also served in the assistant special teams coach role for two seasons (2018 to 2019) to start his NFL career before being promoted to the special teams coordinator role in New England in 2020, when he replaced Joe Judge, who was hired to be the head coach of the Giants.<\/p>\n

Achord\u2019s career started off hot, as the Patriots were the top team in special teams DVOA in 2020, before they averaged the 26th finish over his last three years in New England, a rarity under head coach Bill Belichick. For what it\u2019s worth, Bisaccia\u2019s units averaged a 21st-place finish in his four years in Green Bay.<\/p>\n

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Kyle Wilber (Saints assistant special teams coach)Seasons as special teams coordinator<\/p>\n

LaFleur seems to still be interested in the Bisaccia coaching tree, as Kyle Wilber is one of his disciples. After playing for Bisaccia for nine seasons (in his ten-year NFL career) over two stops, Wilber joined the Packers as their special teams quality control coach (the third-ranked position in Green Bay\u2019s special teams room) in 2023. In 2025, he received a promotion with the New Orleans Saints, where he was the number two to Phil Galiano. Wilber had no prior coaching experience before Bisaccia hired him to the entry-level role.<\/p>\n

With Bisaccia gone and his number two taking the Cleveland Browns\u2019 job a week before Bisaccia stepped down, the Packers\u2019 opportunities to tap into the Bisaccia tree are either Wilber or Green Bay\u2019s current quality control coach Cory Harkey.<\/p>\n

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Matthew Smiley (free agent)Seasons as special teams coordinator<\/p>\n

Like Achord, Matthew Smiley\u2019s story can be best described as a hot start before his units began slipping downhill. Before his three-year stint as a coordinator in Buffalo, Smiley was the assistant special teams coach in Jacksonville (2013 to 2016) and Buffalo (2017 to 2021).<\/p>\n

He has not coached since the end of the 2024 season, as he wasn\u2019t on a team in 2025 and has not signed with a club in 2026, either.<\/p>\n

For what it\u2019s worth, Harkey, the Packers\u2019 number three guy under Bisaccia in 2025, was Smiley\u2019s number two when Smiley was in the coordinator role with Buffalo.<\/p>\n

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Update: Smiley has taken the special teams coordinator job at the University of South Carolina.<\/p>\n

Tom McMahon (free agent)Seasons as special teams coordinator<\/p>\n

FTN\u2019s DVOA rankings only date back to the 2018 season, so we don\u2019t have data on Tom McMahon\u2019s units with the Rams, Chiefs and Colts, but he does have 17 years of special teams coordinator experience in the NFL.<\/p>\n

McMahon\u2019s units in Denver were poor, with a 27.25 average, but he was solid in his first three years in Las Vegas as Bisaccia\u2019s replacement (average placement of 14th) before the gears really slipped in 2025. McMahon was fired in November by Pete Carroll, the third head coach he served under after Josh McDaniels and Antonio Pierce. He has not taken a job for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

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Sam Sewell (Cardinals assistant special teams coach)Seasons as special teams coordinator<\/p>\n

Sam Sewell was hired to be the Arizona Cardinals\u2019 assistant special teams coach under Packers defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon, when Gannon was the team\u2019s head coach. Before then, Sewell coached for eight years in college football with a special teams background.<\/p>\n

When Gannon was let go, Jeff Rodgers, who is well respected in the league and has been a coordinator since 2010, was allowed to leave for the Buffalo Bills. Mike LaFleur, Matt\u2019s brother, hired Michael Ghobrial to lead his special teams unit post-Rodgers, but retained Sewell as the number two in the unit.<\/p>\n

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During Sewell\u2019s time with Arizona, the special teams finished 11th, 18th and 30th in special teams DVOA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers are up to four scheduled interviews for Rich Bisaccia\u2019s replacement, after Bisaccia stepped down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[390,232,53,108982,346,85,2005,7811,26774,231,7,41,345,2514,2513,6496,212,40013,393,1167,56,6,428,208,15667,397,30867,13343],"class_list":{"0":"post-767513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals","9":"tag-broncos","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-cameron-achord","12":"tag-chiefs","13":"tag-cleveland","14":"tag-colts","15":"tag-coordinator","16":"tag-cory-harkey","17":"tag-denver","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-green-bay","20":"tag-green-bay-packers","21":"tag-greenbay","22":"tag-greenbaypackers","23":"tag-head-coach","24":"tag-jacksonville","25":"tag-kyle-wilber","26":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","27":"tag-new-england","28":"tag-new-york-giants","29":"tag-nfl","30":"tag-packers","31":"tag-patriots","32":"tag-rich-bisaccia","33":"tag-saints","34":"tag-special-teams-coach","35":"tag-special-teams-coordinator"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116110830029258492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767513","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=767513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}