The Cincinnati Bengals have hired Colt Anderson as a special teams assistant and he’ll serve under Darrin Simmons, according to ESPN’s Field Yates.
Before the Senior Bowl, the Bengals had lost one of the more promising young coaches in the NFL when the Detroit Lions swiped Brayden Coombs via promotion.
Into that void steps Anderson, a former special teams ace who went undrafted in 2009 before playing through the 2017 season with four different teams.
Anderson doesn’t have any prior major coaching experience on record, so it speaks to the potential and connections he must have for the Bengals to make him a Simmons understudy.
And what a way to break into the coaching scene at the pro level, as Simmons is widely regarded as one of the best outright coaches at what he does in the NFL.
Simmons was promoted to assistant head coach to Zac Taylor this offseason too.
