IT’S OFFICIAL! We’ve named Chris Banjo our new Special Teams Coordinator.
— New York Jets (@nyjets) January 31, 2025
The New Orleans Saints have another former player moving to a new coaching staff this offseason. One of their old defensive backs Chris Banjo has joined Aaron Glenn’s New York Jets to be their special teams coordinator. This comes after former Saints quarterback J.T. Barrett moved on from the Detroit Lions to the Chicago Bears to become their quarterbacks coach as well.
Banjo played for the Saints from 2016 to 2018, and decided to pursue a coaching career with the Denver Broncos under Sean Payton in 2023, staying there through last season as an assistant special teams coach. He performed well and has now received a promotion elsewhere, joining a former Saints coach in Glenn on the Jets, who was just hired as their head coach. Glenn worked closely with Banjo when he was the team’s defensive backs coach from 2016 to 2020.
The Saints connections seem to always find a way to get jobs together and find new teams to build out the Payton tree, and that has continued immensely this offseason.
