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Dan Benton

Giants to hire Bobby Johnson as offensive line coach

The New York Giants have cycled through multiple offensive line coaches in recent years, but hope to find some stability with the next. And in keeping with recent trends, they’ll task a former Buffalo Bills guy with the job.

Multiple reports, including one from Mike Silver, surfaced on Monday indicating that the Giants have hired Bobby Johnson as their next O-Line coach.

The 49-year-old Johnson has more than 25 years of coaching experience between the NFL and NCAA. He broke in with Akron as a graduate assistant and defensive line coach in 1995, but also spent time with Miami (Ohio) and Indiana before reaching the pros in 2010.

Johnson was initially hired as the Bills’ assistant offensive line coach but departed for Jacksonville in 2012. After one season coaching the Jaguars’ tight ends, he joined the Detroit Lions as tight ends coach and assistant offensive line coach. From 2015 through 2017, he coached tight ends for the Oakland Raiders and then spent one season with the Indianapolis Colts.

In 2019, Johnson returned to the Bills as an offensive line coach. Since then, Buffalo has gone on to assemble one of the better O-Line’s in football, surrendering just 27 sacks during the 2021 which was the second-fewest in the NFL.

Since 2020, the Giants have gone through three different offensive line coaches: Marc Colombo, Dave DeGuglielmo and Rob Sale.

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