The NFL’s Rising Defensive Geniuses: Who Will Redefine the 2025 Season?
Sheppard was a long-time NFL linebacker who then joined the Lions in 2021 as outside linebackers coach under head coach Dan Campbell and defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn. While it’s hard to directly correlate the Lions’ defensive success to Sheppard’s coaching, their linebackers from 2021 to ’24 had a run disruption rate of 7.5%, a pressure rate of 20.3% and a burn rate allowed of 51.7% – all of which were above or at league average during that time.
Williams, coincidentally, joined the Patriots after he spent the 2024 season as Detroit’s defensive line coach and run game coordinator. His other NFL experience is as a defensive line coach, mostly worked under now-Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel with the Tennessee Titans from 2018 to ’23 and previously for the Dolphins and the then-Oakland Raiders.
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