LA Rams hire Mike LaFleur, brother of Packers coach Matt LaFleur, as new OC

The NFL coaching carousel is still spinning away. The most recent passenger to jump off is former New York Jets offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur, who has reportedly landed in Los Angeles with the Rams on Sean McVay’s staff.

NFL insider Ian Rapoport was the first to report the news in a tweet which read:

“The Rams are hiring former Jets OC Mike LaFleur as their new coordinator, sources say. The favorite all along, another LaFleur joins coach Sean McVay.”

Mike LaFleur is the younger brother of another former Rams offensive coordinator, older bro Matt LaFleur, who coached under McVay as Rams OC before eventually landing the Green Bay Packers job, which he’s held ever since.

After LaFleur, McVay hired Kevin O’Connell as OC and he lasted until taking the Minnesota Vikings head coaching gig last offseason, which prompted McVay to go out and find yet another OC in Liam Coen, who served the same role with Kentucky at the college level the year before after previously spending time on McVay’s staff prior to his time in Lexington. Coen then left to return to Kentucky after one rocky year in LA, leaving the Rams OC spot open once again. This time, McVay returned to the trusted LaFleur tree by hiring Mike after he was fired in New York.

Mike LaFleur also comes from the Kyle Shannahan (49ers head coach) coaching tree. He served as an analyst under Shannahan when he was the OC in Atlanta, then followed him to San Francisco when he took the head job there, serving as pass game coordinator until the Jets hired him to be their OC in 2021. Two years later, he’s out in New York and in with LA.