Lions Hiring Former Arizona Cardinals Offensive Coordinator

The Detroit Lions person recovered their adjacent violative coordinator.

According to aggregate reports, nan squad is hiring erstwhile Arizona Cardinals violative coordinator Drew Petzing arsenic their adjacent leader of nan offense.

The 38-year-old attended Middlebury College and played protect backmost for nan Panthers. After 2 years (2006-2006) injuries trim short his career.

Petzing started his coaching profession arsenic a unpaid student adjunct astatine Harvard. He has besides coached collegiately astatine Boston College and Yale.

In nan NFL, he has coached pinch nan Minnesota Vikings, Cleveland Browns and Arizona Cardinals.

According to nan Cardinals squad website, "In his first play pinch Arizona successful 2023, nan Cardinals discourtesy vanished 4th successful nan NFL successful rushing (2,365 yards) and 2nd successful rushing mean (5.02). It was conscionable nan 2nd clip since 1970 nan Cardinals had a top-five rushing discourtesy successful nan NFL (3rd successful 1979).
Prior to Cleveland, Petzing spent six seasons (2014-19) coaching pinch Minnesota. As nan Vikings wide receivers coach successful 2019, WR Stefon Diggs group a past career-high pinch 1,130 receiving yards and vanished 4th successful nan convention that play pinch a 17.9-yard mean connected 63 receptions. Working pinch Kirk Cousins successful 2018, nan Vikings QB group a squad grounds for completions (425), threw for nan third-most passing yards (4,298), had nan second-highest completion percent (70.1%) and recorded nan fourth-highest passer standing (99.7) by a Viking successful squad history."

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