Giants Add Two More Assistant Coaches to John Harbaugh's Staff

Among the role filled include the all-important offensive line coach role.

Mike Bloomgren is the Giants' new offensive line coach. | David Butler II-Imagn Images

New York Giants head coach John Harbaugh has added two more assistant coaches to his growing list.

Mike Bloomgren will be the team’s new offensive line coach, and Addison Lynch will be their new defensive backs coach.

Bloomgren, 49, was most recently with the Cleveland Browns as their offensive line coach, a role he held for one season. Before that, he held positions as offensive line coach, run game coordinator, offensive coordinator, and assistant head coach during a stint at Stanford from 2011 to 2017, and then served as the head coach at Rice from 2018 to 2024.

During his time at Rice, he led the team to consecutive bowl games (2022-23), the third time in program history.

At Stanford, the 27-year coaching veteran was part of a coaching staff that helped the team achieve some of its most successful stretches in program history, with the Cardinals winning at least eight games in each of his seasons there and reaching the Pac-12 Football Championship four times (with three wins). 

Among the offensive linemen he developed at Stanford are first-round picks such as guard David DeCastro, tackle Andrus Peat, and guard Joshua Garnett, the 2015 Outland Trophy winner. Bloomgren also coached running back Christian McCaffrey, who set the NCAA all-purpose yardage record.

Bloomgren’s only other NFL coaching experience came with the Jets, where he served as an offensive quality control coach from 2008 to 2009 and then as an offensive assistant from 2009 to 2010.

Lynch spent three seasons with the Broncos but was among the assistants fired by head coach Sean Payton after the Broncos were eliminated from the postseason by the Bills in the divisional round.

Lynch started his coaching career in 2018 with the Los Angeles Chargers as a defensive quality control coach. During his three-year stint, he rose through the ranks to assistant defensive backs coach.

He was also with the Raiders for one season as an assistant defensive backs coach and with the Lions as a defensive quality control coach.  

The Giants have yet to hire a quarterbacks coach, which is the other major position on Harbaugh's staff still to be filled.

Harbaugh for the role, but it's possible that the delay in hiring a new quarterbacks coach could be that the team wants the candidates to meet in person with quarterback Jaxson Dart, who spent this past week out in San Francisco for the pre-Super Bowl festivities.

Giants Assistant Coaching Tracker

Coach	Role
Tim Kelly	Offensive Role - TBD
Charlie Bullen	Defensive Role - TBD
Willie Taggart	Running Backs
Dennis Johnson	Defensive Line
Chris Horton	Special Teams Coordinator
Dennard Wilson	Defensive Coordinator
Matt Pees	Assistant Linebackers
Adam Schrack	Running Backs Quality Control
Brendan Clark	Defensive Backs Quality Control
Noah Riley	Football Analyst
Megan Rosburg	Assistant to the Head Coach
Donald D’Alesio	Defensive Pass Game Coordinator/Secondary Coach
Chad Hall	Receivers
Grant Newsome	Assistant Offensive Line
Matt Nagy	Offensive Coordinator
Matt Robinson	Assistant Defensive Line
Greg Roman	Senior Offensive Assistant (Possible Run Game Coordinator)
Mike Bloomgren	Offensive Line
Addison Lynch	Defensive Backs

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