Jerod Mayo, long favored to be Bill Belichick’s replacement, was named the head coach of the New England Patriots. The transfer comes only a day after the group parted ways with Belichick, who spent 24 years on the helm and received six Tremendous Bowls.
Mayo, 37, will change into the NFL’s youngest lively head coach. He’s New England’s first Black head coach, and might be one among 5 Black HCs within the league. Mayo turns into the fifteenth head coach within the franchise’s historical past.
The Patriots drafted Mayo tenth general in 2008 out of Tennessee. The linebacker received Defensive Rookie of the Yr, two Tremendous Bowls and was chosen to 2 Professional Bowls throughout his eight seasons in Foxborough. He recorded 905 tackles.
Mayo joined Belichick’s workers in 2019. New England established a succession plan within the contract extension that Mayo signed final offseason, permitting the group to skip the usual hiring course of and instantly set up him as head coach.
“Well, he’s definitely a strong candidate to be the heir apparent, but we have some other good people in our system,” Patriots owner Robert Kraft told NFL Network in March.
There was some hypothesis that the Patriots may have focused one other former participant — Mike Vrabel, who was not too long ago fired by the Tennessee Titans.
