Giants Add Three More to Defensive Coordinator Search.
One of the newest candidates for the team’s defensive coordinator role has already joined the team’s staff.
The New York Giants are reportedly meeting with three additional candidates for the vacant defensive coordinator position. The three candidates are Chargers defensive coordinator Derrick Ansley, Dolphins linebackers coach Anthony Campanile, and Giants defensive backs coach Jerome Henderson.
Ansley, 42, has primarily worked as a defensive backs coach since 2005, when he joined Huntingdon. He also worked at Alabama twice, first as a graduate assistant from 2010 to 2011 and then as the school’s defensive backs coach from 2016 to 2017. He would have met Daboll, who was the school’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2017.
Ansley began his NFL coaching career with the Raiders in 2018, before returning to college for two seasons in 2019 and 2020 as the defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach at the University of Tennessee.
He was hired as the Chargers’ defensive backs coach by former head coach Brandon Staley in 2020, and he took over defensive play calling when Staley was fired last month.
Ansley is currently tied for the second-most interceptions in Troy University football history.
The Giants are reportedly making their second request of the Chargers regarding their coaching staff. Last week, New York was denied access to special teams coordinator Ryan Ficken regarding the Giants’ vacancy, which arose after head coach Brian Daboll relieved Thomas McGaughey of his duties the day after the season ended.
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