Jimmy Lake takes over the title previously held by Thomas Brown, who was hired by the Panthers as their offensive coordinator on new head coach Frank Reich's staff.
Lake most recently served as head coach at the University of Washington in 2020 and 2021. He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Eastern Washington in 1999 and spent seven years at the college level before breaking into the NFL as assistant defensive backs coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2006. Lake worked alongside current Rams defensive coordinator Raheem Morris in Tampa Bay in 2007, when Morris was in his first season as the Bucs' defensive backs coach, and later again in 2010 and 2011 as defensive backs coach when Morris served as head coach.
