The Panthers continue their streak of hiring based on familiarity by signing Lance Taylor to their staff. Taylor has been the running backs coach at Stanford the past three seasons, but was the assistant to Ricky Proehl on Rivera’s staff one year before that.
Taylor is very young, and has held almost every assistant grade position on the offensive side of the ball in his short career. The running backs job at Stanford was an upgrade for him however, so you can’t blame him for taking it, but now this is yet another upgrade as he’ll be a full fledged position coach for the first time in his NFL career.