It’ll be a new-look New Orleans Saints coaching staff in 2025. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Nick Harris reports that the Dallas Cowboys are hiring running backs Derrick Foster away from the Saints’ staff, where he held the same position in 2024. Before that, Foster spent three years coaching the Los Angeles Chargers in the same capacity.
His time with the Chargers overlapped with Kellen Moore’s, so it’s a little surprising to see Foster moving on so soon. Moore is the favorite to be hired as head coach after the Philadelphia Eagles compete in Super Bowl LIX. If Foster was a candidate to remain on staff under Moore, who can’t communicate with the team again until after the Super Bowl, you’d think he would wait a week to see if he can stay in New Orleans.
Still, change was probably needed. While Alvin Kamara turned in his best performance in years the other Saints running backs were nothing to write home about. Jamaal Williams averaged 11.7 rushing yards per game. Jordan Mims had just 6.4. Kendre Miller led the trio with 24.7. Clyde Edwards-Helaire had 23.0 but wasn’t re-signed after the season.
So whoever is coaching the Saints running backs in 2025 must get more out of them as a group. Kamara last made the Pro Bowl in 2021 but has seen increasingly heavy workloads. He’s seen the seventh-most combined carries and catches from 2022 to 2024 but ranks fourth in touches per game (19.8). The only players ahead of him are Saquon Barkley (22.1), Josh Jacobs (21.3), and Derrick Henry (20.7). Someone needs to step up, and it’ll fall on their next running backs coach to find them.
