The Packers have employed a new defensive line coach…..

According to Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Green Bay Packers have hired Vince Oghobaase as their next defensive line coach. Oghobaase previously worked under new Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley as the head coach of the Boston College Eagles.

Oghobaase will succeed outgoing defensive line coach Jerry Montgomery, who was permitted to leave for a lateral position with the New England Patriots. Along with Montgomery, sources indicate that passing game coordinator Greg Williams and inside linebackers coach Kirk Olivadotti will not return to Green Bay in 2024.

Oghobaase began coaching as a graduate assistant at Duke, where he also played football. After two years at Duke, he transferred to Ohio State as a graduate assistant, but not when either Hafley or Greg Schiano, Hafley’s head coach at Rutgers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, were at the program.

Before becoming a full-time on-field coach at the college level, Oghobaase transitioned from his graduate assistant position at Ohio State to an assistant defensive line coach position with the San Francisco 49ers in 2016-2017, marking the first time Hafley and Oghobaase met. At the time, Hafley was the team’s defensive back coach.

After those two years with the 49ers, Oghobaase was the on-field defensive line coach for the UCLA Bruins (2018-2019) before being hired by Hafley’s Boston College staff in 2020. At UCLA, Oghobaase coached Osa Odighizuwa, now a Dallas Cowboy, to a 10-sack season as a defensive tackle in 2019. Odighizuwa eventually was drafted in the third round in 2021 and has started all 34 regular season games for Dallas over the last two years. Both Hafley and Oghobaase’s coaching careers overlapped with Packers inside linebacker Isaiah McDuffie’s senior season at Boston College, though, both coaches were hired after Packers running back A.J. Dillon had played his final game with the Eagles.