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The changeover of coaches continues at Halas Hall in a trickle as Chicago Bears inside linebackers coach Mark DeLeone reportedly has joined the Detroit Lions coaching staff in a similar position for next season.
DeLeone previously coached the linebackers in Chicago.
The Lions have hired away ILBs Coach Mark DeLeone, snatching him off Matt Nagy's coaching staff. | Chicago Bears
AP New Bears defensive coordinator Sean Desai has several vacancies to fill amid the turnover from Chuck Pagano to him, and he finalized a key hire Thursday. As the Texans undergo a coaching staff overhaul with the hire of David Culley, the Bears scooped up linebackers coach Chris Rumph to join them as defensive line coach. Rumph fills a void left by longtime assistant Jay Rodgers, who left for the Chargers after not getting the defensive coordinator job. Rumph coached various positions in major college football, and last season was his first in the NFL. He spent the previous two seasons as c...
And so far, it appears that he's assembled a strong group of assistant coaches. Here are my grades for the assistants that he's hired up to this point. Duce Staley, running backs coach/assistant head coach: A Staley, the former Philadelphia Eagles running backs coach and assistant head man, was rumored at one point to be a candidate to replace Doug Pederson as the head coach in Philadelphia. Instead, the former NFL running back, who spent 10 years in the league with the Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers, joins new Lions head man Dan Campbell's staff as the team's running backs and assi...