Supply – Leslie Frazier to rejoin Mike Macdonald on Seahawks employees

SEATTLE — The Seahawks plan to rent former Buffalo Payments defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier as their assistant head coach, a supply confirmed to ESPN on Friday.

Frazier turns into the primary assistant identified to be employed to teach Mike Macdonald’s employees. The 2 will reunite in Seattle after teaching along with the Baltimore Ravens in 2016, when Macdonald had the title of defensive assistant and Frazier was the secondary coach.

Macdonald, employed Wednesday after spending the previous two seasons as Baltimore’s defensive coordinator, is the NFL’s youngest head coach at 36. Frazier, 64, brings over twenty years of NFL teaching expertise to Seattle. He has been a defensive coordinator for 4 groups, most lately filling that position for the Payments from 2017 to 2022 whereas additionally holding the title of assistant head coach from 2020 to 2022.

Frazier was the Minnesota Vikings’ head coach from 2011 to 2013. He didn’t coach in 2023.

Throughout his introductory information convention Thursday, Macdonald mentioned he plans to name defensive performs at first and finally hand over these duties to a coordinator.

Former Ravens linebackers coach Zachary Orr was a candidate to fill that position on Macdonald’s employees earlier than Baltimore promoted him to defensive coordinator, a supply instructed ESPN.

NFL Community first reported Seattle’s plans to rent Frazier.

ESPN’s Jamison Hensley contributed to this report.