Report: Eagles hire another assistant coach who interviewed for OC job

Former Texans QB coach Jerrod Johnson is reportedly joining the Eagles' coaching staff.

By Reuben Frank • Published March 1, 2026

For the second time, the Eagles have hired one of their offensive coordinator candidates who didn’t get the job.

After adding Buccaneers offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard as passing game coordinator they have now hired former Texans quarterbacks coach Jerrod Johnson to their offensive coaching staff, NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo reported Sunday afternoon. His title remains unknown.

Grizzard and Johnson were both among the seven coaches the Eagles interviewed twice – once virtually and once in person - for the offensive coordinator position that ultimately went to Packers quarterbacks coach Sean Mannion.  

Johnson has been on the Eagles’ radar for a while. He also interviewed for the offensive coordinator vacancy in 2024 before they hired Kellen Moore.

Johnson, 37, spent the last three years as the Texans’ quarterbacks coach. He and the Texans mutually agreed to part ways after this past season, making Johnson a coaching free agent.

Johnson, a three-year starting quarterback at Texas A&M, went undrafted but was in training camp with the Eagles at Lehigh in the summer of 2011. He also spent time with the Steelers, Seahawks, Bears, Ravens and Cowboys through 2016 but never played in a regular-season NFL game. 

He began his coaching career in 2017 with the 49ers as part of the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship under Mike Shanahan on a staff that also included Jeff Hafley, Mike LaFleur, Mike McDaniel, DeMeco Ryans, Rich Scangerello and Bobby Slowik.

In 2019, he joined the Colts staff as part of the Bill Walsh Diversity program and spent three years with the Colts, the first two alongside Nick Sirianni under Frank Reich. Marcus Brady, Jonathan Gannon, Jason Michael and Kevin Patullo were also on that staff.

In 2022, Johnson served as Kevin O’Connell’s assistant quarterbacks coach with the Vikings and in 2023 he became Ryans’ quarterbacks coach.

With Mannion as offensive coordinator, Grizzard passing game coordinator and Parks Frazier quarterbacks coach it’s not clear what role Johnson will fill, but Nick Sirianni is clearly trying to fill his new offensive coaching staff with as many assistants as possible who have worked in the Bill Walsh system.

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Link to above article (it wouldn't allow me to add it to the original post for some odd reason ... kept getting some GoDaddy firewall error message).

https://www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/jerrod-johnson-coach-houston-texans/718188/

I like that we are clearly overhauling the offense and doing all we can to add new ideas and voices. But with his role unknown and so many new faces is there a danger the messaging becomes a little unclear? Or perhaps confused? Things needed to change there’s no doubt but this is a lot of change in one offseason.

Yeesh they are really re-making this Offense.

I like the youth movement, but, will there be "to many cooks in the kitchen" from all of these Coaching hires?? 🧐

On 3/3/2026 at 12:24 PM, LacesOut said:

Yeesh they are really re-making this Offense.

I like the youth movement, but, will there be "to many cooks in the kitchen" from all of these Coaching hires?? 🧐

Good question. They do seem to be building a "Council of offense." I guess we'll see in the fall.

55 minutes ago, PoconoDon said:

Good question. They do seem to be building a "Council of offense." I guess we'll see in the fall.

Yeah agreed and hard to say if this will turn out to be good or not. Said it before and I'll say it again, almost reminds me of 2020 under Doug just after Groh was fired and they brought in Breiner and Scangarello as offensive minds. We all know how that turned out.