Carolina Panthers announce hiring of South Carolina legend Duce Staley as new RBs coach

The Carolina Panthers have added Duce Staley to the team’s coaching staff as the team’s running backs coach and assistant head coach. The franchise announced the move on Tuesday afternoon.

Staley and new Panthers head coach Frank Reich worked together in Philadelphia during the Eagles’ 2017 Super Bowl run. Now, they’re together again in Carolina.

The hiring of Duce Staley comes shortly after the Carolina Panthers announce Jim Caldwell would also be joining Carolina’s offensive staff. Add in new quarterbacks coach Josh McCown and the staff under the offensive-minded Reich is coming together quickly.

For his part, Duce Staley is a South Carolina legend who played for the Gamecocks in the mid-1990s. He was later drafted in the third round of the 1997 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles before later playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers. There, he helped the Steelers win a Super Bowl.

He has since spent most of his coaching career with the Eagles, before joining the Detroit Lions’ staff in 2021.