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Broncos announce seven coaching staff hires, including 35-year NFL veteran Dom Capers

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New Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett continued to overhaul his staff Monday by adding seven assistant coaches.

On offense, the Broncos hired Jake Moreland (tight ends), Ben Steele (assistant offensive line) and Roman Chinyoung (offensive quality control).

On defense, the hires are Dom Capers (senior defensive assistant), Peter Hansen (linebackers) and Bert Watts (outside linebackers).

And on special teams, the Broncos added Mike Mallory as assistant special teams coach.

A look at the hires in alphabetical order:

Capers will enter his 36th NFL season and the Broncos will be his 12th club. He brings 25 years of experience as a head coach (Carolina and Houston) and defensive coordinator (Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, Miami and Green Bay). He has spent the last three years as a senior defensive assistant for Jacksonville, Minnesota and Detroit.

Capers started his coaching career with 13 years in the college ranks and two in the USFL. He was the initial coach of the expansion Panthers (1995-98) and Texans (2002-05); his defensive coordinator at both stops was former Broncos coach Vic Fangio.

Chinyoung joins the Broncos for his first college or NFL position. After a playing career at Southern University (2007-10), he has coached a decade in the Texas high school ranks, including the last two years as the head coach at Willowridge High in Houston.

Hansen was most recently the defensive coordinator/inside linebackers coach at UNLV. After a football/basketball playing career at Arizona, he started his coaching career at Palo Alto (Calif.) High School before moving on to Stanford (2008-10), the San Francisco 49ers (2011-13) and a return to Stanford (2014-19) as inside linebackers coach.

Hansen’s time with the 49ers overlapped with Ejiro Evero, who is expected to be the Broncos’ defensive coordinator.

Mallory, son of the late Bill Mallory, who coached at CU from 1974-78, has been in the NFL for 12 of his 34 coaching seasons. In the pro ranks, he was New Orleans’ assistant special teams coach from 2008-12 (one Super Bowl championship) before joining Jacksonville (2013-16) as special teams coordinator and assistant special teams coach (2017-20).

Mallory was on the Jacksonville staff when Hackett was quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator.

Moreland served as the New York Jets’ assistant offensive line coach in 2021, his first season in the NFL. He played tight end at Western Michigan (13 touchdown catches) and appeared in 11 games for the Jets and Cleveland over two years. As a coach, Moreland worked at Elmhurst (Ill.) College, St. Joseph’s (Ind.) College, Syracuse, Air Force (two stints) and Western Michigan, where he was the offensive coordinator from 2017-20.

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Steele was the Minnesota Vikings’ assistant offensive line coach in 2021, where new Broncos quarterbacks coach Klint Kubiak was the offensive coordinator. Steele grew up in Colorado and played at Mesa State and spent time as a tight end with San Francisco, Minnesota, Oakland, Seattle and Houston and appeared in 17 regular season games for Green Bay in 2004-05.

After his playing career, Steele coached collegiately at Mesa State, CU, California and UC-Davis before entering the NFL with Tampa Bay (2014-18, including two years as tight ends coach) and Atlanta (2019-20, including one year as tight ends coach).

Watts was a staff assistant with the Broncos in 2012 and re-joins the club after working as Auburn’s special teams coordinator/outside linebackers coach in ’21.

Watts played safety at California (1998-02) and has coached at his alma mater, the Raiffeisen Vikings in Austria, two high schools in the Jacksonville, Fla., area, CU, UC-Davis, Fresno State and Memphis. He was Fresno State’s defensive coordinator in 2018-19.


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