Patriots Hall of Famer joins NFC rival as coaching assistant
Troy Brown spend five seasons on the Patriots' coaching staff.
With Mike Vrabel reconfiguring the Patriots’ coaching staff ahead of the 2025 season, Troy Brown is officially moving on in his post-playing career.
The Patriots Hall of Famer and three-time Super Bowl champion was not named to Vrabel’s reworked coaching staff last week — with Brown now set to join the New York Giants for the 2025 season.
According to the Giants, Brown will join Brian Daboll’s staff as an offensive assistant through the NFL Minority Coaching Fellowship.
As noted by ESPN’s Mike Reiss, Daboll has plenty of familiarity with Brown — as he worked with him while serving as New England’s wide receivers coach from 2002-06.
After spending his entire playing career with the Patriots from 1993-07, Brown returned to the organization as a coach in 2020 — initially serving as the running backs coach & kick returners coach under Bill Belichick that season.
Brown served as the team’s wide receivers coach & kick returners coach from 2021-23, and then remained on Jerod Mayo’s staff in 2024 as skill development / kick & punt returners coach.
But after Mayo’s firing in January, Vrabel has uprooted a majority of New England’s coaching staff — with Brown joining other ex-Patriots stars in Matthew Slater and Dont’a Hightower on the outside looking in at coaching roles in Foxborough in 2025 and beyond.
After Tyler Hughes replaced Brown as the team’s wide recievers in 2024, Vrabel has named Todd Downing as the team’s wideout coach in 2025 — while Brown’s longtime role as a kick/punt returners coach will be handled by a special-teams staff led by coordinator Jeremy Springer and assistant Tom Quinn.
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