LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Rams are within the technique of hiring former New York Jets offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur, a supply confirmed to ESPN on Friday.
The transfer, first reported by NFL Community, comes after LaFleur and the Jets parted ways and Rams offensive coordinator Liam Coen left Sean McVay’s employees to return to the Kentucky Wildcats to carry the identical place.
Throughout the 2022 season, the Rams’ offense struggled to constantly transfer the ball down the sphere. The unit was hit laborious by accidents final season, shedding quarterback Matthew Stafford and broad receivers Cooper Kupp and Allen Robinson to season-ending accidents.
The Rams additionally had so many accidents on the offensive line that they began 12 totally different offensive line combos of their first 12 video games of the season.
LaFleur spent the final two seasons with the Jets, main an offense that completed twenty ninth in scoring and twenty fifth in complete yards in 2022 and twenty eighth and twenty sixth the earlier season.
The Tremendous Bowl LVI champions, who completed final season 5-12, count on to have a wholesome Stafford and Kupp to start out OTAs in April.
Earlier than his time with the Jets, LaFleur was the San Francisco 49ers‘ passing sport coordinator and broad receivers coach from 2017 to 2020 underneath head coach Kyle Shanahan.
LaFleur’s brother, Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur, was the Rams offensive coordinator underneath McVay in 2017.