The New York Jets are hiring Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn as their next head coach, per multiple reports Wednesday.
The news comes as Glenn's counterpart in Detroit, offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, took the Chicago Bears job on Tuesday. The Lions have already identified in-house replacements for both coordinators.
As for the Jets, they're getting a head coach they know well. Glenn is a former Jet himself, taken 12th overall by Gang Green out of Texas A&M in 1994.
There, he became one of the best players in franchise history. The 3-time Pro Bowler made the Jets' All-Four Decade Team in 2003.
After eight years with the club, Glenn was taken by his hometown Houston Texans in their expansion draft. After three seasons in Houston, Glenn spent two seasons with the Dallas Cowboys, and one apiece with the Jacksonville Jaguars and New Orleans Saints before retiring after the 2008 season, his 15th in the league.
Glenn entered coaching as the Cleveland Browns assistant defensive backs coach in 2014 after two seasons as a personnel scout for the Jets. He became the Saints secondary coach in 2016 and the Lions defensive coordinator in 2021.
Glenn becomes the ninth of the 28 active NFL head coaches to have played in the league, and the fifth to coach his former team, joining Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh, Texans head coach DeMeco Ryans, Patriots boss Mike Vrabel, and his former boss Lions head coach Dan Campbell.
He'll have an uphill battle to cut through the Jets historic dysfunction to build a winner in New Jersey. Since the club's 1960 founding, only Bill Parcells coached more than one season and left with a winning record.
However, the story was the same when Campbell took over in Detroit and look at him now. Now, Glenn will try to write the same script with the Jets.
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