Will Jets hire the favorite to land key assistant jobs, or should Aaron Glenn look elsewhere?

Aaron Glenn began filling his coaching staff Wednesday with three hires, including defensive coordinator Steve Wilks, and special team coordinator Chris Banjo.

And there is a chance that he could fill his final coordinator job, and undoubtedly the most important rent he will do as a coach here before the weekend arrives.

Ever since Glenn was hired last week, Jets has been closely linked to Lions, passing gaming coordinator Tenner Engstrand – the only name that got real traction for open offensive coordinator jobs.

Now we are finding out if there is a fire under all that smoke. There were Wilks who also showed up as a scriptural runner just after Glenn got the job. But Wilks is also one of the most experienced coaches in the league and a perfect fit with Glenn, which gives up Play, which calls for a wider view of the team as first -year head coach.

Engstrand is considered a sharp offensive mind with great potential. But there is an element of risk there because he has not had much of a chance to prove it in a meaningful way.

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He has only two years of NFL experience as a position and only four years of experience at this level in total (he spent his first two years in Detroit as offensive assistant and offensive control coach of high quality).

But he has some previous relationships that it could help him in the job. And many years of experience in calling acting, even if it is not at the NFL level.

Engstrand was an offensive coordinator at the University of San Diego, Hans Alma Mater, a few years after he started his career there as a candidate assistant under Jim Harbaugh.

He spent seven seasons like San Diego and before coming to Harbaugh in Michigan as an offensive analyst in 2018.

By 2020, he was the offensive coordinator of XFL’s DC defenders. He joined the Lions staff on the ground floor of 2021 and then help coach Dan Campbell, offensive coordinator Ben Johnson and Glenn transform Detroit from a punchline into a challenger.

All this experience, both from an X’s and O’s point of view and from coaching personalities, should have him well equipped for a coordinator job if he has been aware.

Yes, it would be a bit of a risk, but Glenn knows what he’s getting after working with Engstrand for the past four years, and any offensive coordinator that Jets Hire will be a risk because they’ve gone through seven in the last nine years.

The only thing that gives us a little break about Engstrand? Johnson exceeded him when it was time to hire his OC in Chicago, and Campbell did the same.