After interviewing with the Green Bay Packers, the University of Wisconsin football team’s defensive coordinator, Jim Leonhard, has announced he will stay a Badger after turning down an offer to coach at the NFL level.
The announcement came Friday night in a Zoom conversation between Leonhard and Packers Head Coach Matt LaFleur.
Leonhard was a frontrunner for the defensive coordinator position with the Packers, who recently let go of Mike Pettine after a disappointing season for the Packers’ defense that was capped with several big plays in the team’s loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC Championship Game.