The Broncos’ coaching staff continues to come together.
Denver head coach Sean Payton is adding former college assistant Brian Niedermeyer to the defensive side of the ball in a quality control-type role, sources confirmed to The Post on Wednesday afternoon.
Niedermeyer most recently had been named the head coach at Tuscaloosa County High School in Alabama, but has years of experience working as a high-level college assistant. The Broncos job will be the 36-year-old Niedermeyer’s first coaching stint in the NFL.
Niedermeyer spent time as a graduate assistant at both Alabama and Georgia before landing on staff at Tennessee in 2018. He coached tight ends there, then inside linebackers in 2021. He was fired as a wave of recruiting violations made their way through the school under then head coach Jeremy Pruitt, with the NCAA leveling allegations against Tennessee that implicated Niedermeyer as offering “impermissible recruiting inducements” to multiple student-athletes.
After receiving a five-year show-cause penalty from the NCAA, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel, Niedermeyer coached at Florida high school powers St. Thomas Aquinas and IMG Academy before taking a job at Tuscaloosa County High. Earlier Wednesday, Tuscaloosa County High announced that Niedermeyer had “made the decision to step down from his position in order to accept an opportunity at a higher level.”
The Tuscaloosa News first reported Niedermeyer was taking a job with the Broncos.
Payton has had extensive work to do on his coaching staff. He’s lost three coaches — special teams assistant Chris Banjo, passing game coordinator John Morton and tight ends coach Declan Doyle — to coordinator jobs with other teams. The club is also working through a review process with outside linebackers coach Michael Wilhoite, who was charged with assaulting a police officer late last month after an incident at Denver International Airport.
Payton’s already formalized the hire of Darren Rizzi as his special teams coordinator and assistant head coach. Late last month at the NFL combine, the Broncos head coach said the staff had not yet been fully assembled, though he’s expected to announce the full 2025 group in the coming days.
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