Titans make first offseason coaching change, hiring John Fassel as a replacement for special teams coordinator Colt Anderson
NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Titans are moving on from special teams coordinator Colt Anderson and have hired John Fassel to replace him. There is an outside chance that Anderson is brought back in a lesser role. Fassel is an experienced NFL coach that had been a special teams coordinator since 2008. The Titans will be the […]
NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Titans are moving on from special teams coordinator Colt Anderson and have hired John Fassel to replace him.
There is an outside chance that Anderson is brought back in a lesser role.
Fassel is an experienced NFL coach that had been a special teams coordinator since 2008. The Titans will be the fourth team that Fassel has joined as the special teams coordinator.
From 2008-2011, Fassel was with the Oakland Raiders. From 2012-2019, he was on staff with the St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams for both Jeff Fisher and Sean McVay. Most recently, Fassel was with Mike McCarthy and the Dallas Cowboys.
With McCarthy being let go by Dallas, Fassel was free to take interviews with other teams and look at making a lateral move. Now he lands in Tennessee and provides the Titans with a massive upgrade for the 2025 season.
Colt Anderson's struggles as special teams coordinator are well documented. The Titans had a disastrous start to the 2024 season on special teams, costing themselves a win in the season opener against the Chicago Bears. Tennessee had a pair of punts blocked and consistently failed to cover kicks in the first half of the season.
The organization did not make special teams a priority from a personnel standpoint. That burned them. The arrival of Justin Hardee and Bryce Oliver as gunners helped turn the tides for the second half of the season. Luke Gifford also played at a nearly Pro Bowl level, as did punter Ryan Stonehouse.
But even with the unit's improvement over the course of the season, Anderson is being ousted. When you finish 3-14, someone has to be held accountable, and I think the narrative of Anderson's very public shortcomings made it difficult for Callahan to keep him on as the coordinator. There is an outside chance that Anderson is brought back in a lesser role.
Adding an experienced coach that has been an NFL coordinator for nearly two decades will be a huge boost for Brian Callahan's Titans.
Now Tennessee just needs to bring Gifford and Hardee back for the 2025 season and get the Borgonzi era started off on the right note.
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