On March 20, 2019, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers head football coach Bruce Arians announced they added Lori Locust as assistant defensive line coach and Maral Javadifar as assistant strength and conditioning coach. The Buccaneers became the first National Football League team with two female coaches on staff.
Arians pledged to hire female assistants during a forum at the Super Bowl in Atlanta, but has been working toward this for years. He brought Jen Welter in as an intern in 2015 when he was coaching the Cardinals, and now has a pair of female coaches on his staff on a full-time basis.