NFL Coaching Updates: Schneider, Alexander, Berger

It didn’t take long for former 49ers special teams coordinator Brian Schneider to bounce back or for Commanders special teams coordinator Larry Izzo to get some new help. According to Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports, Schneider has been hired by Washington as the team’s new assistant special teams coordinator.

Schneider was fired after three years in his role with the 49ers. He’s had two other short stints as a coordinator with the Raiders (2007-08) and Jaguars (2021), but his longest coordinator stint came from 2010 to 2020 with the Seahawks, where he worked alongside Commanders head coach Dan Quinn in 2010 and from 2013-14. The 53-year-old will now reunite with Quinn after 10 years.

Schneider fills the role left vacant by John Glenn. Glenn, who had served six seasons as the linebackers coach in Seattle before his lone season in Washington, departed in order to coach linebackers again for the Raiders.

Here are a couple other coaching updates from around the NFL:

• The Steelers have a new defensive backs coach, per Josh Alper of NBC Sports. Gerald Alexander is returning to Pittsburgh after one year away from the team. Alexander’s first NFL job came in 2020 as the defensive backs coach for the Dolphins. He joined the Steelers as assistant defensive backs coach after being fired in Miami and left last year to retake a full defensive backs coaching job with the Raiders. With the staff turnover occurring in Las Vegas right now, Alexander returns to Pittsburgh. It seems Grady Brown is still on staff in Pittsburgh as secondary coach, but after the team finished 25th in pass defense in 2024, it’s not guaranteed he’ll stay.
• Jon Berger has joined Aaron Glenn‘s new staff in New York. Berger will be the new game management coach for the Jets. He previously spent 35 years with the Giants in various analytics roles but has spent the past three years as an NFL employee, including holding a role as vice president of replay.