Lions will hire Mark Brunell as the QB coach
The Detroit Lions continue to add former NFL players to the coaching staff. Longtime NFL quarterback Mark Brunell will be hired as the team’s new QB coach, per multiple reports.
Brunell interviewed with the Lions this week and his hiring is expected to be finalized quickly. He currently works as a radio host in Jacksonville, where he spent the highest points of his long playing career.
Brunell has coaching experience but only at the high school level. He played 17 years in the NFL, starting with the Green Bay Packers as a fifth-round draft pick in 1993 out of Washington. He played for the Packers, Jaguars, Jets, Washington and the Saints, where Brunell finished his career as a teammate of new Lions head coach Dan Campbell. A lefty, Brunell was one of the best dual-threat QBs of his era.
