Paul KasabianFeatured Columnist IIFebruary 25, 2024
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UCLA football has actually worked with previous Kansas City Chiefs and Washington Commanders offending planner Eric Bieniemy as its brand-new associate head coach/offensive organizer on a two-year offer, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Pete Thamel.
Bieniemy will work under brand-new UCLA head coach DeShaun Foster, and he discussed the chance in a text to CBS Sports’ Josina Anderson (through Garrett Podell):
“This is an excellent chance for me to assist support DeShaun as a brand-new head coach, to work with him and for him. I selected to fly under the radar throughout this working with procedure, and my experience created a great deal of interest from a variety of NFL groups prior to concerning this choice.”
Bieniemy, who starred at Colorado as a running back before playing in the NFL from 1991 to 1999, significantly won 2 Super Bowls as the Chiefs’ OC in 2019 and 2022.
Bieniemy left the Chiefs to end up being the Washington Commanders’ assistant head coach/offensive organizer in 2023 under Ron Rivera. Washington fired Rivera after the 2023 season, leaving Bieniemy searching for brand-new chances.
He informed CBS Sports that 2 NFL groups revealed interest in his becoming their brand-new offending organizer. Bieniemy likewise spoke with for the Commanders’ head training gig before they rolled with Dallas Cowboys protective planner Dan Quinn.
Eventually, Bieniemy is returning to college, where he coached from 2001 to 2005 and once again in 2011-2012.
Bieniemy was Colorado’s running backs coach in 2001 and 2002 before taking the very same task with UCLA in 2003 and 2004. He included hiring organizer to his tasks in 2005 before starting his NFL training profession in 2006 as the Minnesota Vikings’ running backs coach.
5 years later on, Bieniemy returned to Colorado as its OC, however Reid then employed him as the Chiefs’ running backs coach in 2013. 5 years later on, he got promoted to OC when his predecessor, Matt Nagy, delegated end up being the Chicago Bears’ head coach.
