{"id":802194,"date":"2026-03-09T11:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/802194\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:02:18","slug":"broncos-hire-ex-tennessee-titans-lb-zaviar-gooden-to-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/802194\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos hire ex-Tennessee Titans LB Zaviar Gooden to coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"http:\/\/Titanswire.usatoday.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tennessee Titans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tennessee Titans<\/a> linebacker Zaviar Gooden is headed to Denver to join the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/denver-broncos\/332\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Broncos;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Broncos<\/a>\u2019 coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>Gooden was drafted No. 97 overall by the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tennessee-titans\/336\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tennessee Titans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tennessee Titans<\/a> in 2013. The Missouri product recorded a combined seven tackles for loss as well as one quarterback hit for the team in his two seasons from 2013-14.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Gooden also played for the Detroit Lions (2016) and the Arizona Cardinals (2016-17). He began his coaching career as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at USC in 2021. He most recently served as assistant development coach at LSU from 2022-26.<\/p>\n<p>NFL insider <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AaronWilson_NFL\/status\/2030756406706512255?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Aaron Wilson reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Aaron Wilson reports<\/a> that the Broncos have hired Gooden to be a part of their staff for the 2026 NFL season.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos reached the AFC Championship game in 2026 and are led by quarterback Bo Nix.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Titans Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/titanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/titans\/2026\/03\/09\/broncos-hire-ex-tennessee-titans-zaviar-gooden-coaching-staff\/89043687007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Broncos hire ex-Tennessee Titans LB Zaviar Gooden to coaching staff;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Broncos hire ex-Tennessee Titans LB Zaviar Gooden to coaching staff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tennessee Titans linebacker Zaviar Gooden is headed to Denver to join the Broncos\u2019 coaching staff. Gooden was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[3258,390,104386,925,232,4951,231,113,7,6,526,394,2411,10891,527,112364],"class_list":["post-802194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennessee-titans","tag-aaron-wilson","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-assistant-strength-and-conditioning-coach","tag-bo-nix","tag-broncos","tag-coaching-staff","tag-denver","tag-detroit-lions","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-tennesseetitans","tag-the-broncos","tag-titans","tag-zaviar-gooden"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116198882881990111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802194","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=802194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}