Wealthy Bisaccia steps down as assistant head coach/particular groups coordinator

Wealthy Bisaccia has stepped down because the assistant head coach and particular groups coordinator of the Inexperienced Bay Packers. Head Coach Matt LaFleur made the announcement Tuesday.

“Whereas we’re disenchanted to lose an individual and coach as beneficial as Wealthy, we respect his resolution to step down from the Packers,” LaFleur mentioned. “Wealthy was an incredible useful resource to me and our complete teaching employees who had a profound influence on our gamers and our tradition all through the constructing. We will not thank him sufficient for his contributions to our group during the last 4 years. We want Wealthy, his spouse, Jeanne, and the remainder of their household all the most effective shifting ahead.”

Bisaccia was named particular groups coordinator on Feb. 8, 2022, and was promoted to assistant head coach/particular groups coordinator on March 10, 2023. Throughout his 4 seasons in Inexperienced Bay, he helped the Packers rank No. 7 within the league over that span in field-position margin (plus-1.2), together with top-10 finishes in 2023 (No. 8, plus-2.1) and 2024 (No. 5, plus-2.7). Inexperienced Bay was tied for No. 2 within the NFL with 42 kickoff returns of 30-plus yards from 2022-25, the group’s most over a four-year span relationship again to 2000. The Packers additionally ranked No. 4 within the NFL from 2022-25 in kickoffs contained in the 20 with 28, together with a league-best 12 in 2023.

“After taking a while to mirror over the previous couple of weeks, I’ve made the choice to step down because the assistant head coach and particular groups coordinator of the Inexperienced Bay Packers,” Bisaccia mentioned. “I’m extremely grateful to Matt LaFleur, Brian Gutekunst, Ed Coverage and Mark Murphy for his or her unwavering belief and help all through my time in Inexperienced Bay. I’m additionally grateful to the gamers for his or her constant work and relentless effort to enhance each single day. I wish to thank everybody within the group for his or her dedication and dedication. The folks on this constructing make it a particular place to work.

“I need to additionally thank our followers and the folks all through the Inexperienced Bay group for his or her ardour and love for this group. Teaching for the Inexperienced Bay Packers was actually an honor, and I’ll all the time be pleased about my time right here. I stay up for no matter is subsequent for me and my household, and I want nothing however the most effective for everybody within the group.”

In 2025, P Daniel Whelan set franchise single-season data for gross scoring common (51.7) and web scoring common (43.9), turning into the primary Packer to guide the league in gross scoring common because the 1970 AFL-NFL merger. His 51.7-yard common ranks No. 3 in NFL single-season historical past (min. 40 factors). Amongst gamers with 150-plus factors, Whelan has posted the highest profession scoring common (47.8) and the highest web scoring common (41.2) in franchise historical past.

In 2023, Bisaccia tutored CB Keisean Nixon as he led the NFL in kickoff returns yards (782) and kickoff return common (26.1) on his method to incomes first-team All-Professional honors from The Related Press for the second straight season, simply the fourth participant to take action in back-to-back years (Mel Grey, 1990-91; Devin Hester, 2006-07; Cordarrelle Patterson, 2019-20). Nixon grew to become simply the second participant in group historical past to guide the NFL in kickoff return yards in back-to-back seasons (Al Carmichael, 1956-57). In his first season with the Packers in 2022, Bisaccia helped Nixon turn out to be the primary kick returner in franchise historical past to earn first-team AP All-Professional honors because the place was added in 1976. Nixon ranked No. 2 within the NFL in kickoff returns (28.8 avg.), the highest single-season mark in group annals (min. 30 returns), and posted a league-high 1,009 yards on kickoff returns, simply the third participant in franchise historical past to guide the NFL within the class.