San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan won’t get his wish to retain fired defensive coordinator Nick Sorensen.
According to NBC Sports Bay Area’s Matt Maiocco, Sorensen won’t be returning to the 49ers coaching staff after being fired as their defensive coordinator after the 2024 season. Shanahan told reporters at his end of season press conference that he hoped Sorensen would stay on the staff, possibly as the special teams coordinator.
Maiocco in that same report said the 49ers interviewed former New York Jets special teams coordinator Brant Boyer.
Boyer, 53, spent nine years as the Jets’ special teams coordinator, including the three seasons Robert Saleh was there as the head coach. Prior to joining the Jets, Boyer was an assistant special teams coach with the Indianapolis Colts from 2012-15.
Adding an experienced special teams coach should be a priority for San Francisco given their need for some stability at that spot after a rocky 2024 campaign. It says a lot about Boyer that he was on staff with three different head coaches in New York.
Boyer is also a former NFL player who was a sixth-round pick of the Miami Dolphins in 1994. He spent 10 years in the NFL with the Dolphins, Jaguars and Browns. The linebacker played in 130 games and posted 323 tackles, 13.0 sacks and six interceptions.
