Source: Jets hire Seth Ryan as passing-game coordinator

Following his father and grandfather, Seth Ryan is now a member of the New York Jets’ coaching staff.

A source told ESPN that Ryan, 31, was hired as their new passing-game coordinator on Saturday. He replaces Scott Turner, who was fired two weeks ago by Aaron Glenn in a coaching staff change.

It’s rare in the NFL: three generations of a coaching family with one franchise.

Seth is the son of Rex Ryan, the Jets’ head coach from 2009 to 2014. Rex Ryan was 46–50, with a 4–2 record in the playoffs. The Jets have not made the playoffs since 2010, Ryan’s second season. He is now an ESPN analyst.

The Ryan family’s roots with the Jets began in 1968, when Rex’s father, Buddy Ryan, got his first NFL coaching job as a defensive line coach.

The Jets won the Super Bowl in Ryan’s first season, and he remained with the team until 1975. Later, he became the defensive coordinator of the 1985 IPL. Chicago BearsAfter that there was a tenure as head coaching philadelphia eagles.

The family’s Jets ties run deep.

Rex and his twin brother, Rob, worked as Jets ball boys in the late 1960s. Rex remembers frolicking on the beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at the age of 6 in preparation for Super Bowl III in Miami. Some of the team’s stars – Joe Namath, Winston Hill, Gerry Philbin, and others. — became his childhood idol. During his tenure as head coach of the franchise, a Philbin jersey hung in his office at One Jets Drive.

On the day he was introduced as head coach in 2009, Rex was presented with his father’s old warmup jacket from the ’68 season. “RYAN” was written on the inside in black marker.

Breaking with family tradition, Seth Ryan is an offensive-minded coach. They spent the last five seasons together detroit lionsFirst as an assistant wide receivers coach and then as an assistant tight ends coach. Glenn was on that staff for four seasons. Before that, he was an aggressive quality control coach los angeles chargers.

Seth Ryan attended Summit High in New Jersey, only a few miles from the Jets’ training facility. He played at Clemson and was a member of its 2016 College Football Playoff championship team.