Between returning coaches who were criticized at different degrees in 2025 and new assistants with question marks over them, the Green Bay Packers’ coaching staff has several pieces with varying degrees of pressure coming into 2026. And that’s on all phases of the ball, including special teams.

So, let’s discuss which Packers coaches have more to prove, and how large their range of outcomes for the upcoming season may be.

Matt LaFleur, head coach

This is unquestionably the season where LaFleur will face the most pressure. And that’s a consequence of what happened in 2025. There was a season-long (and probably exaggerated) discussion about his long-term position within the franchise. He got a new extension, but the questions only got bigger and louder down the stretch. To be fair, the debate felt more valid considering how the Packers lost to the Chicago Bears in the playoffs.

LaFleur is still a good head coach and a fantastic offensive mind. But he will have to prove his value once again to avoid further discussions about his job security.

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Adam Stenavich, offensive coordinator

It’s hard to define what Stenavich’s role is behind LaFleur. He was a valuable offensive line coach, but there’s some sense of Peter Principle going on, with Stenavich not helping that much on offense, and losing a great position coach. The fact is that before being promoted to offensive coordinator, Stenavich had already been elevated to run game coordinator. It’s reasonable to presume that he has a big role in scheming run plays, and the run offense regressed over the past few years. Until we see improvement again in that area, there will be questions.

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Jonathan Gannon, defensive coordinator

Gannon is the most important new piece of the staff. He comes with the huge responsibility of replacing Jeff Hafley. While Hafley’s defense didn’t take an expected leap in 2025, his tenure was a major upgrade over what the Packers had had in the final years of Dom Capers and with Mike Pettine and Joe Barry.

The point here is not if Gannon will be better than those coaches or as good as Hafley. It’s if the former Arizona Cardinals head coach will be able to maximize a defense that has Micah Parsons as its leader.

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Cam Achord, special teams coordinator

The Packers’ special teams situation has been a nightmare for so much time that it’s hard to believe anything they do will work until proven otherwise. This situation is particularly troubling because the Packers didn’t necessarily want to move on from Rich Bisaccia, the veteran coach decided to quit weeks after the season.

So the Packers entered late in the hiring process and ended up choosing Achord, a former New England Patriots coordinator who spent the past two years as an assistant with the New York Giants. Unlike many other positions here, this is just about competence.

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Luke Getsy, quarterbacks coach/assistant head coach – offense

We know Getsy can be a good quarterbacks coach. That’s the position he was in when Aaron Rodgers was the MVP of the league in 2020 and 2021. The big question is how confident he still is after some troubling experiences as an offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears and Las Vegas Raiders.

Hopefully for the Packers, Matt LaFleur was already able to answer that question over the past year and a half, with Getsy back in Green Bay first as a defensive consultant, then as a senior offensive assistant. Now, in addition to his position as a quarterbacks coach, he will also be the assistant head coach for the offense. The positive news is that, back in 2020 and 2021, he was also a QBs coach and passing game coordinator.

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Luke Butkus, offensive line coach

Butkus is the most questioned position coach on the entire staff. Whether it’s a matter of talent or actually coaching, it’s hard to argue that the unit regressed since he was promoted in 2022. The most pressing reality is that the Packers lacked player development at the position, including from highly-touted players like Jordan Morgan. And Green Bay needs it for Morgan, Anthony Belton, Jager Burton, and some other young pieces.

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Vince Oghobaase, defensive line coach

Oghobaase is here not because of his previous work, but because of the pressure ahead. He arrived in Green Bay alongside Jeff Hafley in 2024 as an assistant defensive line coach, but the Packers had a defensive line coach overseeing edges and interior defensive linemen. Now that the defense went back to a 3-4 base, edges and IDL are separated again, and Oghobaase was promoted to take care of the interior guys.