Chargers News: Jesse Minter Reflects On First Month With LA
Jim Harbaugh isn't the only staff member making their NFL return with your Los Angeles Chargers this season. Defensive coordinator Jesse Minter is also making an NFL comeback, after he previously served as a defensive assistant for the Baltimore Ravens from 2017-2020. After, Minter went to Vanderbilt for a year before becoming Michigan's defensive coordinator from 2022-2023.
Recently, Minter shared with Eric Smith of Chargers.com what he's been focused on with the Chargers since joining the team earlier this offseason.
"It's been really good. The first part was really getting the staff situated, which we feel really good about the defensive staff that we currently have. Certainly a lot of familiarity with me, most of them, but a few new faces. Then we've kind of dove into our personnel, the players that we have returning here. We've certainly done some things in the college evals and the free agent evals. And we're trying to put together a defense — a playbook and a defense — that we feel will best suit us to have success here. Trying to study teams in our division, other teams around the league, stuff that we've done at previous places that some of us have been. It's been a lot going on but certainly feel good about where we're at and the progress that we've made up to this point."
— Jesse Minter, via Eric Smith of Chargers.com
With free agency and the draft right around the corner, those evaluations should prove helpful for the Chargers as the new league year begins on March 13. The Chargers have already made one major move, in releasing Eric Kendricks to free up some cap room.
In addition to offseason acquisitions and transactions, Minter will get to focus on implementing his new defensive scheme to the Chargers before players report to OTAs and training camp later this offseason.
