Patriots reportedly adding Shane Bowen to coaching staff

The Patriots seem like including one other title to the teaching employees.

In accordance with multiple sources, the Patriots are hiring former Giants and Titans defensive coordinator Shane Bowen as an analyst.

Bowen, 39, labored below New England head coach Mike Vrabel as Titans exterior linebackers coach from 2018-2020, and defensive coordinator from 2021-2023.

He additionally overlapped with Vrabel on the Texans employees from 2016-2017 (when Vrabel was on the defensive employees and Bowen was a defensive assistant). The 2 first labored collectively on the Ohio State employees in 2012 when Vrabel coached the defensive position and Bowen labored as a graduate assistant.

During the last two seasons, Bowen was the Giants’ defensive coordinator. He was fired from the function in November by then-interim head coach Mike Kafka after an time beyond regulation loss to the Lions (the most recent in a sequence of video games by which New York’s protection squandered leads).

As Patriots.com reporter Evan Lazar pointed out, New England defensive coordinator Zak Kuhr views Bowen as a “mentor determine,” as the previous labored below the latter in each New York and Tennessee.

It continues a reshaping of New England’s defensive employees in the course of the offseason. Kuhr is now the defensive coordinator, having served in a de facto function in the course of the 2025 season as then-DC Terrell Williams took time away from the group amid a fight with prostate cancer.

Williams was ultimately declared cancer-free, and can fill a high-ranking role inside the defensive employees. He’s presently listed on the Patriots’ web site as “assistant head coach.”