Chiefs sign defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo to extension،
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — In Spags, the Kansas City Chiefs do indeed trust.
The Chiefs have demonstrated their confidence in Steve Spagnuolo, their defensive coordinator, by signing him to a contract extension, the team announced.
Spagnuolo guided the Chiefs to the second-best regular season defense in 2023 as the Chiefs won their eighth straight AFC West championship. They allowed an average of 17.3 points per game.
The Chiefs were even better defensively in the playoffs, limiting four of the league's six highest-scoring teams during the regular season to an average of fewer than 16 points per game, as the Chiefs became the first team to win consecutively. return to Super Bowls in 20 years.
The Chiefs averaged the youngest defensive team in the NFL, at 25.4 years old. Chiefs players made T-shirts during the playoffs that read “In Spags We Trust.”
“I'm very grateful for the job Spags has done with the defensive team,” coach Andy Reid said Tuesday. “I thought they were a great example to everyone by taking young guys, teaching them and watching them grow.”
Spagnuolo, 64, was an assistant to Reid for eight seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles before embarking on his own coaching journey that included three years as head coach of the Rams.
They reunited in 2019 when Spagnuolo joined the Chiefs. Spagnuolo was also their coordinator for the Chiefs' Super Bowl championships in 2019 and 2022.
