Bengals’ newest coaching hire signals additional changes were made to Zac Taylor’s staff
Cincinnati is adding the son of a former NFL head coach to Zac Taylor’s coaching staff.
The Cincinnati Bengals are making an alteration to their coaching staff.
Per NFL Media’s Tom Pelissero, Davis Koetter is being hired as Cincinnati’s assistant receivers coach. Koetter is the son of former Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Dirk Koetter, and has been an analyst for Texas and South Carolina for the past few seasons.
Koetter, who played wide receiver for Boise State from 2018-2022, comes from an offensive background as his father spent nine years as an offensive coordinator before taking over the Buccaneers from 2016-18. He also spent 13 years as a collegiate OC and eight years as a HC for Boise State and then Arizona State.
The Bengals will be Koetter’s first NFL gig, and the reason for his hiring may have been necessitated due to another change.
Davis Koetter is filling a spot that wasn’t previously vacated
Koetter’s hiring is interesting because he’s taking a role that already had a coach attached to it. Cincinnati created the assistant WR coach position last year and named Jordan Salkin as its first holder. Salkin joined the Bengals in 2024 as an offensive assistant, the same year Fredi Knighten was named assistant quarterbacks coach.
Twitter/X user MrKCincy notes Knighten, who’s been with the club since 2022, is no longer listed as a member of the team’s coaching staff.
It’s entirely possible Salkin is replacing Knighten as the new assistant QB coach and Koetter is filling the role Salkin had for the past year. The Bengals have not made any coaching changes official, so there may be other moves in the process of happening.
Head coach Zac Taylor told reporters last month he didn’t anticipate making any coaching changes this offseason. Those plans nearly changed when OC Dan Pitcher was in the hunt to take the same position with the Buccaneers. Pitcher was granted permission to interview because he would’ve been Tampa Bay’s offensive play-caller.
It looks like the only change thus far is inserting Koetter, and replacing Knighten with Salkin. More changes could follow as several clubs around the NFL are putting together new staffs.
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