Commanders to hire longtime special teams coach Brian Schneider as assistant special teams coordinator
The Commanders have quickly filled the first opening on their coaching staff this offseason.
According to multiple reports and confirmed by Ben Standig, the Commanders are hiring former 49ers special teams coordinator Brian Schneider as an assistant special teams coordinator, reuniting him with former Seahawks staff-mate Dan Quinn.
He replaces John Glenn, who was hired by Las Vegas as their linebackers coach last week under new Raiders head coach Pete Carroll, whom he was with in Seattle from 2012-23 as an assistant.
Schneider, 53, has been a special teams coach at the college or pro level since taking that position in 1997 at his alma mater, Colorado State.
He was let go by the 49ers in January after three seasons there, but the bulk of his time was in Seattle, where he served as Carroll’s special teams coordinator from 2010-19 – overlapping with Dan Quinn’s time there as defensive coordinator.
Schneider’s addition to Washington’s staff makes the teacher now the student, so to speak, as the Commanders’ coordinator, Larry Izzo, was Schneider’s assistant coordinator in Seattle for two years, and then succeeded him when Schneider left just before the 2020 season kicked off.
