Steve Belichick to develop into DC at Washington, sources verify

Steve Belichick has accepted the College of Washington defensive coordinator job, sources confirmed to ESPN.

Belichick, son of former Patriots coach Invoice Belichick, has spent the previous 12 years as a defensive assistant in New England, together with 5 as a defensive playcaller.

Steve Belichick, 36, beforehand labored with newly employed Washington head coach Jedd Fisch in 2020, when Fisch was the Patriots’ quarterbacks coach.

Sources confirmed to ESPN final month that Steve Belichick and his youthful brother Brian, additionally a Patriots defensive assistant, had been provided a possibility to stay with New England below new coach Jerod Mayo.

However Steve Belichick as a substitute will be part of an overhauled teaching workers in Washington below Fisch, who signed a seven-year take care of the Huskies final month after Kalen DeBoer left this system to develop into the brand new coach at Alabama.

Washington’s hiring of Belichick was first reported Sunday by 247Sports.

ESPN’s Area Yates contributed to this report.