{"id":19774,"date":"2025-01-25T04:50:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T04:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=19774"},"modified":"2025-01-25T04:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T04:50:58","slug":"ben-johnson-bears-poach-member-of-dan-campbells-lions-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=19774","title":{"rendered":"Ben Johnson, Bears Poach Member of Dan Campbell&#8217;s Lions Coaching Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_q5x8n2zfs\">After four years in Detroit, Antwaan Randle El is packing his bags for Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ylyxwz1it\">ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter reported Friday, citing sources, that the Chicago Bears are working toward a deal to make Randle El, the Detroit Lions&#8217; former wide receivers coach, their new assistant head coach and receivers coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_kp06rpi84\">Randle El will follow former Lions offensive coordinator and\u00a0<a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/lions-turn-attention-replacing-ben-johnson-aaron-glenn-mailbag\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/lions-turn-attention-replacing-ben-johnson-aaron-glenn-mailbag\">new Chicago head coach<\/a>\u00a0Ben Johnson to the Bears.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bears are working to finalize a deal to make former Lions WR coach Antwaan Randle El their new assistant head coach\/wr coach, per source. Randle El is following Ben Johnson to Chicago. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/07O2FkxBQn\">pic.twitter.com\/07O2FkxBQn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1882937944098603263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_cb7ml5k6p\">Randle El is the fourth Lions assistant to depart this offseason, joining Johnson, defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn, who was hired as the New York Jets&#8217; head coach, and defensive line coach Terrell Williams, the New England Patriots&#8217; new defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_vgthgbab0\">Randle El, who played nine seasons as a receiver in the NFL, joined coach Dan Campbell&#8217;s staff as the WR coach after two years as an offensive assistant with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tout_d_2_5\">\n<div id=\"tout_d_2_5_slot0\" data-google-query-id=\"CKqA56yJkIsDFWyrOgUdVO4DVA\">\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_w526e5iv0\">The Lions won a franchise-record 15 games in 2024 but were\u00a0<a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/zach-ertz-josh-paschal-jayden-daniels-hit\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/zach-ertz-josh-paschal-jayden-daniels-hit\">upset 45\u201331 by the Washington Commanders<\/a>\u00a0in the divisional round last weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four years in Detroit, Antwaan Randle El is packing his bags for Chicago. ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter reported Friday, citing sources, that the Chicago Bears are working toward a deal &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19776,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19774\/revisions\/19776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}