The Los Angeles Rams announced six members of their Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellows program, two of whom played for the franchise in the past. Donte Deayon, who won Super Bowl LVI with the Rams two years ago, and Daren Bates are the two former members of the Rams organization who will take part in the fellowship program.
The other four coaching fellows are Corey Liuget, Chuckie Keeton, Vontrell King-Williams and Kyle Washington. The six members of the fellowship program began working with the team during the second week of OTAs and will continue through minicamp later this month.
The fellowship is named after the late Pro Football Hall of Fame head coach, who first introduced this concept to the NFL in 1987 when he brought a group of minority coaches to San Francisco 49ers’ training camp. The fellowship is designed as a vocational tool to increase the number of full-time NFL minority coaches in the league while exposing fellows to the methods and philosophies of an NFL coaching staff.
Deayon, Bates and Liuget are just beginning their coaching careers, with this fellowship program being a potential pathway to future jobs. Keeton is currently an offensive analyst at Marshall, King-Williams is a defensive analyst at Auburn and Washington coaching the quarterbacks at Northwestern State.
With the Rams, Deayon will assist with coaching the cornerbacks, Bates will work on special teams, Keeton will coach the running backs, Washington will help with the receivers and both King-Williams and Liuget will coach the defensive line.
