Report: Rams shuffle Sean McVay’s staff, make Shane Waldron QBs coach

The Los Angeles Rams saw their coaching staff broken apart this offseason after the Bengals hired Zac Taylor to be their next head coach. It’s the second straight year Sean McVay has lost assistants to higher positions with other teams, like Greg Olson becoming the Raiders’ offensive coordinator and Matt LaFleur taking the same job with the Titans.

All these departures have led to some shuffling for McVay’s staff. Wade Phillips’ son, Wes, is coming aboard as the Rams’ tight ends coach, which relieves Shane Waldron of those duties. Waldron will remain the pass game coordinator, while also taking over for Taylor as the quarterbacks coach, according to Albert Breer of the MMQB.

The Rams are indeed moving some staff around. With Wes Phillips aboard as TEs coach, sources say passing-game coordinator Shane Waldron, who was TEs coach, will become QBs coach. And plan is to hire an assistant QBs coach to work with Waldron.

— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) February 13, 2019

Additionally, Jedd Fisch, whom the Rams hired to be an offensive assistant last year, is being promoted to assistant offensive coordinator. He formerly worked as UCLA’s offensive coordinator in 2017.

One other Rams staff change on offense: Senior offensive assistant Jedd Fisch is being promoted to assistant coordinator/offense, source said.

— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) February 13, 2019

Vincent Bonsignore of The Athletic also reported that Fisch and Waldron will be elevated to higher positions.

Much like having the very qualified Zac Taylor already on staff to replace Greg Olson last year as the #Rams QB coach, Jedd Fisch and Shane Waldron will assume elevated positions on #Rams offensive staff to offset the loss of Taylor to be the head coach of the #Bengals

— Vincent Bonsignore (@VinnyBonsignore) February 13, 2019