The Green Bay Packers are in the process of finding a new special teams coordinator.

Rich Bisaccia left them high and dry, and now head coach Matt LaFleur and the Packers are stuck trying to find a diamond in the rough.

Most fans wanted Bisaccia gone, so this is a bittersweet moment. Ideally, Green Bay's special teams can only go up from here. The timing of Bisaccia's announcement was a bit suspect, though.

You could say that he screwed over Green Bay's special teams one last time on his way out.

Enough about the past, though. There are four coaches we know are getting interviews right now. More may come out in the meantime, but here's a ranking of this first group from least-desirable candidate to most-desirable candidate.

Matthew Smiley is a 47-year-old coach who was previously the special teams coordinator for the Buffalo Bills from 2022 to 2024. He was fired early in the 2025 offseason after his unit allowed a punt block returned for a touchdown, a kickoff return for a touchdown adn 30.8 yards per kickoff return on average.

Tom McMahon, 56, has been coaching since 1992. He's been the special teams coordinator for the St. Louis Rams (2009-2011), Kansas City Chiefs (2012), Indianapolis Colts (2013-2017), Denver Broncos (2018-2021) and Las Vegas Raiders (2022-2025).

He's got a ton of experience in the NFL as a special teams coordinator, and that's a huge plus. The negative is that he wasn't good enough for Pete Carroll in Vegas.

To be fair, Vegas was a sinking ship anyway, but Carroll fired McMahon in early November due to the team having multiple special teams mishaps. That list includes two blocked punts, missed field goals, blocked field goals and blocked extra points.

2025 was rough for McMahon, but the full scope of his tenure in Vegas saw the Raiders average 29.6 kick return yards (fifth in the NFL) and punter AJ Cole notched 17 punts of 60-plus yards in 2024.

Kyle Wilber, 36, is a former NFL linebacker. He played college ball at Wake Forest (2007-2011) before being selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the fourth round (135th overall) of the 2012 NFL draft.  

He played in the NFL from 2012 to 2021 and then got into coaching. Wilber was actually the Packers' special teams quality control coach in 2023 and 2024 under Bisaccia. Last season and currently, he's the assistant special teams coach for the New Orleans Saints. 

Cameron Achord, 39, may be the most interesting candidate for this job. He was the special teams coordinator for the New England Patriots from 2020 to 2023, and he's been the assistant special teams coach for the New York Giants since 2024.

Achord was the assistant special teams coach in New England in 2018 and 2019 before Bill Belichick promoted him to replace Joe Judge. 

In the 2020 season, Achord's special teams unit was ranked No. 1 in the NFL by Rick Gosselin. The Patriots had two Pro Bowlers on special teams in punter Jake Bailey and coverage specialist Matthew Slater. Punt returner Gunner Olszewski was also a first-team All-Pro, according to the AP. 

The special teams went from top-ranked to middle of the pack over Achord's next few seasons, and he wasn't retained by the Pats when Jerod Mayo took over for Belichick.

This is a guy who has run an elite special teams unit before, so perhaps he can catch lightning in a bottle once again with the Packers.

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