ALLEN PARK, Mich. \u2014 The\u00a0Detroit Lions\u00a0have hired Drew Petzing, their third offensive co-ordinator in three years.<\/p>\n
Detroit\u00a0fired offensive co-ordinator John Morton\u00a0shortly after the season in a move that was expected after coach Dan Campbell took over play-calling duties midway through the season. Morton replaced\u00a0Ben Johnson, who left the Lions to become the head coach of the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n
Campbell said after the season that he hadn\u2019t decided whether he would continue to call plays.<\/p>\n
Petzing was the offensive co-ordinator for the Arizona Cardinals for the previous three years, receiving some criticism in the 2025 season for the group’s performances, particularly in the fourth quarter. Arizona did have some success statistically with Petzing over three seasons, ranking second in yards per rushing attempt and ninth in yards rushing from the 2023 through the 2025 seasons.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old Petzing previously was an assistant coach in the NFL for Cleveland and Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Petzing was a defensive back at Division III Middlebury College in Vermont. After a career-ending injury, he was a student assistant for Middlebury. Petzing started his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Harvard before being on the staff at Boston College and Yale.<\/p>\n
Early in the search for a new offensive co-ordinator, the Lions reached out to\u00a0Mike McDaniel\u00a0about the opening.<\/p>\n
However McDaniel was hired on Monday by\u00a0Jim Harbaugh\u00a0and the Los Angeles Chargers to serve as offensive co-ordinator.<\/p>\n
Detroit was 9-8 and finished last in the NFC North after winning the division the previous two seasons and earning the top seed in the conference last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLEN PARK, Mich. \u2014 The\u00a0Detroit Lions\u00a0have hired Drew Petzing, their third offensive co-ordinator in three years. Detroit\u00a0fired offensive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-435313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}