New York Post

Jets need new RB coach

- By RYAN DUNLEAVY

If Breece Hall is going to achieve his goal of becoming an All-Pro running back in 2024, he will do it with a new coach in his ear.

The Jets are parting ways with Taylor Embree, The Post confirmed, and the search for a new running backs coach is underway.

Embree coached the position for three years as a member of head coach Robert Saleh’s original staff, after the two overlapped for three years as 49ers assistants.

Panthers assistant head coach and running backs coach Duce Staley met with the Jets last week about a spot on the staff, and the Titans’ Tony Dews will interview for the vacancy after coaching tight ends last season, according to ESPN.

Staley — the former 1,000yard rusher for the Eagles — is reportedly also a candidate to coach the Browns running backs.

Dews has ties to the Jets staff as a former colleague of passing game coordinato­r Todd Downing and offensive line coach/run game coordinato­r Keith Carter when all three were with the Titans. Dews was the running backs coach from 2018-22 — the best seasons of workhorse

Derrick Henry’s career.

Hall developed into one of the NFL’s best running backs in two years under Embree, coming back strong from a torn ACL suffered as a rookie to rush for 4.5 yards per carry and finish just shy of 1,000 yards this season.

When the 2023 Pro Bowlers were announced, Hall declared on X, “Telling y’all now 2024: I will be a Top RB. I Will be in the Pro Bowl. I Will be an All Pro. And it will continue years after that.”

It is possible that the Jets could make more changes, especially on the offensive side, as other NFL coaching staffs take shape.

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