With Matt Patricia inked to become the next Detroit Lions head coach, it’s time for him to start building his surrounding staff. According Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports, Detroit will be adding Boston College defensive line coach Paul Pasqualoni to their staff.
Thamel doesn’t get into specifics, so we don’t know what job Pasqualoni will be accepting with the Lions. A couple weeks ago, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported that Pasqualoni was a candidate for the Lions’ defensive coordinator position, but he walked that back a little in a later tweet:
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