{"id":781665,"date":"2026-02-28T07:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/781665\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T07:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:29:14","slug":"packers-hire-achord-as-new-special-teams-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/781665\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers hire Achord as new special teams coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) &#8211; The Packers are hiring Cam Achord as their new special team coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 39-year-old was most recently the assistant special teams coach of the New York Giants from 2024-2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He won Super Bowl LIII as a member of the New England Patriots\u2019 staff as their assistant special teams coach in the 2018 season as served as the Pats\u2019 special teams coordinator from 2020-2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">All told, Achord has 10 years of experience coaching special teams in the NFL, including four seasons as a coordinator. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Last season with the Giants, he helped coach a unit that returned 70 kickoffs for a single-season franchise-record 1,942 yards (27.7 avg.), surpassing the previous record of 1,688 yards set in 1964. The Giants\u2019 27.7 kickoff return average was the second-highest mark in a single season in franchise history and ranked No. 5 among all NFL teams in 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In 2024, the Giants had two players earn NFC Special Teams Player of the Week honors. Isaiah Simmons was named the Week 5 recipient after he blocked Seattle\u2019s Jason Myers 47-yard game-tying field goal attempt that Bryce-Ford Wheaton caught and returned it 60 yards for the clinching touchdown. Ihmir Smith-Marsette was the second Giant to earn the honor after he returned a kickoff 100 yards for a TD in Week 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In his last year as coordinator in New England, the Patriots finished #3 in the NFL with a 26.2-yard kickoff return average in 2023 while their coverage team was #6, allowing an average 20.6 yards. In 2022, Achord led a unit ranked #1 in the NFL with 418 punt return yards and #3 with 1,274 total return yards as rookie Marcus Jones earned first-team All-Pro honors from The Associated Press as a punt returner after he ranked #2 in total return yards (1,007) and punt return average (10.7 yards), and #1 in punt return yards (362), and had the longest punt return (84 yards). In 2020, the Patriots ranked #1 in Rick Gosselin\u2019s annual rankings of all 32 NFL teams\u2019 special teams. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Packers name Cam Achord special teams coordinator<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Green Bay Packers (@packers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/packers\/status\/2027500707075789115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WBAY. 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