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Denver Broncos hire Los Angeles Rams' Ejiro Evero as new defensive coordinator

The Denver Broncos have hired Los Angeles Rams secondary coach and passing game coordinator Ejiro Evero as their defensive coordinator on new head coach Nathaniel Hackett's coaching staff, the team announced Thursday.

Evero was a college teammate of Hackett's at UC Davis.

This season was the 41-year-old Evero's fifth with the Rams but first as secondary coach. He had been the safeties coach from 2017-20.

Previously, he was the with the Green Bay Packers in 2016 as defensive quality control coach and before that spent five years on the San Francisco 49ers' staff (2011-15) as both a quality control coach and an offensive assistant.