After a weeks-long search, the Commanders are finalizing a deal with Chiefs assistant Eric Bieniemy to be their assistant head coach and offensive coordinator. In Washington, Bieniemy will, for the first time, gain full control of offensive play-calling.
“I have two years left on my contract; are they going to give [me] those two years? That’s what everybody has asked,” Rivera said. “And I said, ‘Look, all I know is I’ve been told it’s business as usual.’ I mean, I get updates. I talk to ownership to let them know where I am. They’ve been nothing but supportive.
The all-time leading rusher at the University of Colorado, Bieniemy finished third in Heisman Trophy voting in 1990 and was drafted in the second round in 1991. He spent nine seasons in the NFL and closed his career in Philadelphia in 1999, with Reid as his head coach. Bieniemy was the running backs coach at Colorado and then UCLA before he jumped to the NFL in 2006 to join Brad Childress’s staff in Minnesota, first as running backs coach and then with the added title of assistant head coach. He spent 2011 and 2012 as Colorado’s offensive coordinator before reuniting with Reid in Kansas City in 2013.
Bieniemy’s name has regularly surfaced in hiring cycles as a head-coaching candidate. But to the surprise of many,“Eric Bieniemy has been tremendous for us, and I think he’s tremendous for the National Football League,” Reid said Monday. “I’m hoping he has an opportunity to go somewhere and do his thing, where he can run the show and be Eric Bieniemy.”
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