{"id":787331,"date":"2026-03-02T19:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/787331\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:26:14","slug":"eagles-expected-to-hire-new-assistant-olb-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/787331\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles expected to hire new assistant OLB coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Eagles aren\u2019t done adding to their coaching staff for 2026 and are expected to hire Allen Smith as an assistant outside linebackers coach, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mzenitz\/status\/2028531375268114883\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to CBS Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Smith was the defensive line coach for Army for one season, and prior to that, was the DL coach for Georgia State from 2022 to 2024. He does have a dash of NFL experience as part of the Texans coaching staff in 2021 as an assistant defensive line coach, but was coaching at the collegiate level from 2012 to 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He\u2019s another young coach coming to Philadelphia, and will replace former Eagles assistant linebackers coach Ronnell Williams, who left for Las Vegas this offseason to be the Raiders LB coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This will be a good opportunity for Smith to get his foot in the door, and even though his role will be with the outside linebackers, he\u2019ll be able to work alongside DL coach Clint Hurtt. With Hurtt interviewing for DC positions this offseason, the Eagles probably aren\u2019t able to keep him in his current role for long \u2014 even if that means promoting him within the building once Vic Fangio retires.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eagles aren\u2019t done adding to their coaching staff for 2026 and are expected to hire Allen Smith&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,7,6,242,109,98323,5406,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-787331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","13":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-coaching-staff","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-news","15":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116161228658532387","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787331","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=787331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}