Packers Hire UAB’s Eddie Gordon as Assistant Offensive Line Coach
INDIANAPOLIS – According to 247 Sports, Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur has hired Eddie Gordon to be an assistant offensive line coach.
Gordon served as UAB’s offensive line coach in 2023 after helping shape Georgia’s powerhouse.
“We are so lucky to get Eddie Gordon to join our staff here at UAB,” UAB coach and former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer said last year. “Eddie was instrumental in the development of two national championship offensive lines. He is wildly respected in the offensive line community and was a key part of Georgia's success over the past few years.”
Gordon spent the previous four seasons at Georgia. From 2019 through 2021, he was the offensive line graduate assistant. In 2022, he was a quality-control coach.
“He had a personality about him,” Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart said this year before Georgia faced UAB. “He never backed down from coaching players hard, and I respect that in a coach because he didn't try to be their friend. He coached them hard, and he recruited them hard. You see it in the way that his O-line plays. I know they are going to be wound up for this one because I know that Eddie wants his kids to play well.”
In college, Gordon opened his playing career at NC State in 2012. After transferring to Hutchinson Community College in 2013, he landed at Louisiana, where he played center from 2014 through 2016. He started at center in 2015 and 2016 and was an honorable mention on the all-Sun Belt team in 2016.
An uncle, Calvin Stephens, was drafted by the Patriots in the third round of the 1991 draft. Gordon’s Louisiana bio notes his career goal was to be a teacher and coach.
For the second consecutive year, Luke Butkus was Green Bay’s offensive line coach and was assisted by Ryan Mahaffey. Mahaffey is still listed among Green Bay’s assistants.
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