Jerod Mayo, lengthy liked to be Invoice Belichick’s substitute, was once named the top trainer of the New England Patriots. The transfer comes only a day after the group parted tactics with Belichick, who spent 24 years on the helm and received six Tremendous Bowls.
Mayo, 37, will grow to be the NFL’s youngest energetic head trainer. He’s New England’s first Black head trainer, and might be considered one of 5 Black HCs within the league. Mayo turns into the fifteenth head trainer within the franchise’s historical past.
The Patriots drafted Mayo tenth total in 2008 out of Tennessee. The linebacker received Defensive Rookie of the Yr, two Tremendous Bowls and was once decided on to 2 Professional Bowls right through his 8 seasons in Foxborough. He recorded 905 tackles.
Mayo joined Belichick’s body of workers in 2019. New England established a succession plan within the contract extension that Mayo signed closing offseason, permitting the staff to skip the usual hiring procedure and right away set up him as head trainer.
“Neatly, he’s unquestionably a powerful candidate to be the inheritor obvious, however we have now any other excellent folks in our machine,” Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft instructed NFL Community in March.
There was once some hypothesis that the Patriots may have centered every other former participant — Mike Vrabel, who was once not too long ago fired through the Tennessee Titans.
