The Lions have hired Mark Brunell to lead the team’s quarterbacks in his first NFL coaching job. Also, Duce Staley will be Detroit’s assistant head coach/running backs coach.
The Detroit Lions have hired Mark Brunell as quarterbacks coach, the first NFL coaching job for the 19-year veteran who last played in the league in 2011. Brunell is expected to tutor the Lions’ first new full-time starting quarterback in over a decade, as Detroit is seeking to trade Matthew Stafford, the team’s signal-caller since 2009, after he and the franchise mutually agreed to a split earlier this month. Brunell has the playing experience, at least, to potentially do it. He played most of his career in Jacksonville, starting 117 games over nine seasons beginning in 1995.
