49ers hire from within to replace TEs coach that left for Seahawks OC job
· Yahoo Sports
The San Francisco 49ers lost one of their longtime assistants earlier this offseason when the Seattle Seahawks hired tight ends coach Brian Fleury to be their next offensive coordinator.
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Fleury was hired by the 49ers in 2019 after working with the Miami Dolphins, initially starting as a defensive quality control coach. He had previous experience as a quality control coach, while mainly working on the defensive side of the ball in stints at the collegiate level and with the Cleveland Browns in 2014-15.
But after one year as a defensive quality control coach, head coach Kyle Shanahan flipped him to an offensive quality control coach for two years before Fleury saw a promotion to the tight ends coach role. He held that from 2022-24 and tacked on the title of run game coordinator this past year, taking over for Chris Foerster, who earned a promotion to assistant head coach.
Well, Fleury’s continued success landed him his first offensive coordinator job with the Seattle Seahawks, leaving a vacancy for the 49ers to fill this offseason. And they’re staying internal with a promotion.
According to NBC Sports’s Matt Maiocco, the 49ers are promoting assistant offensive line coach Cameron Clemmons to tight ends coach. Clemmons had been in his position for the past two seasons after spending four years with the Las Vegas Raiders in the same position.
Clemmons is a former offensive lineman himself, playing five years at Western Kentucky from 2010-14. He had a brief playing career before beginning his coaching career as an offensive intern at Eastern Kentucky in 2015. That parlayed into a graduate assistant role at Tennessee, where he was later promoted to an offensive quality control analyst, staying there from 2016-19.
Now, his fast rise is continuing, only at a different position, as Clemmons will be taking over the tight ends in 2026.
His group currently consists of George Kittle, who is recovering from a torn Achilles, Luke Farrell, and Brayden Willis, with Hayden Rucci also on a reserve/futures contract.