The Jets on Thursday made their first offseason teaching transfer by requesting to interview Vikings defensive passing sport coordinator and defensive backs coach Daronte Jones for his or her vacant defensive coordinator job.
Jets head coach Aaron Glenn fired his hand-picked defensive coordinator, Steve Wilks, after 14 video games this season with the group’s protection struggling.
The Jets protection completed ranked thirty first in factors in opposition to, permitting 503 this season.
They set an NFL file for fewest turnovers in a season with 4 and have become the primary group in NFL historical past to go a complete season with out an interception.
Wilks was changed by defensive backs coach Chris Harris, who’s presumably within the dialog to take away the interim tag and grow to be the full-time coordinator.
Jones, 47, initially joined the Vikings as a defensive backs coach in 2020 underneath then-head coach Mike Zimmer.
He labored as LSU’s defensive backs coach in 2021 earlier than rejoining the Vikings on Kevin O’Connell’s first workers in the identical function in 2022.
He added defensive move sport coordinator to his title in 2023, and he’s held that function ever since.
Working alongside Minnesota defensive coordinator Brian Flores, Jones and the Vikings completed as a top-three protection this season, permitting 282.6 yards per sport.
The Vikings additionally compelled a league-high 13 fumbles and ranked seventh in common factors allowed at 19.6 per sport.
Jones has greater than 20 years of teaching expertise and has been working underneath Flores, who’s a head teaching candidate across the league.
The Jets aren’t the one group concerned about Jones, who may also interview with the Cowboys for his or her vacant defensive coordinator job.
