The Giants‘ new running backs coach already knows Tyrone Tracy Jr. well.
Brian Daboll is hiring Iowa running backs coach Ladell Betts for the same position on New York’s teaching workers, sources mentioned Monday.
Betts, 45, a former NFL working again, has coached the Hawkeyes’ RBs for the reason that 2021 faculty season.
So he was on Iowa’s workers in Tracy’s ultimate season there, as a large receiver who noticed some carries, earlier than he transferred to Purdue and finally switched to full-time working again as a Boilermaker.
The Athletic first reported Betts’ hiring.
Daboll now has added one other piece of Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz’s teaching tree with the Hawkeyes coach’s sons James Ferentz (assistant OL coach) and Steven Ferentz (defensive assistant) already on the Giants’ workers.
Betts joins a training workers on the recent seat, nevertheless, and fills a emptiness the place Daboll has been unable to search out consistency.
Betts would be the Giants’ fifth working backs coach in 5 years and their fourth in 4 years beneath Daboll. The place was empty as a result of Joel Thomas left after just one season to return to the New Orleans Saints, the place he spent almost a decade from 2015-23.
DeAndre Smith left after the 2022 season for a lateral transfer to the Indianapolis Colts. And Jeff Nixon left after the 2023 season for the Syracuse offensive coordinator job throughout an offseason that marked an exodus of quite a few staffers.
The Giants’ addition of Betts is going on because the group’s entrance workplace personnel and training workers board their flights for Indianapolis for this week’s NFL Mix.
GM Joe Schoen holds the No. 3 general choose within the NFL Draft and is scheduled to talk to reporters on Tuesday morning.
