According to a Yahoo.com report, the Rams named Al Saunders their new offensive coordinator on Wednesday. He was fired by the Redskins after two seasons in the same position. This will be the second go-around for Saunders in St. Louis. He was an assistant with the team from 1999-2000 under Dick Vermeil and was on the staff that guided the Rams to their first Super Bowl victory after the 1999 campaign.

Quarterback Jordan Palmer, Carson's brother, signed a two-year deal with the Cincinnati Bengals on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press. Jordan will have the opportunity to earn a spot as Carson's backup on the team. "Someday we'll look back and laugh about it and think it was pretty cool," Jordan told the AP in a phone interview.

Ray Rhodes was hired as the assistant defensive backs coach for the Texans on Monday, according to an Associated Press report. Rhodes, who spent five seasons as a head coach first in Philadelphia and then Green Bay, worked in Seattle since 2003. He was the defensive coordinator for the Seahawks from 2003-05 and had the title of special projects/defense the past two seasons.

Rex Ryan is back with the Ravens, according to an Associated Press report. Ryan, fired as defensive coordinator December 31, was hired Monday as the team's assistant head coach/defensive coordinator. Ryan was given the position by new coach John Harbaugh, who planned to make a formal announcement at a news conference later Monday.

The Falcons hired Mike Mularkey as their offensive coordinator Friday night, according to a Associated Press report. Mularkey, Miami's tight ends coach in this past season, is the latest hire by new Head Coach Mike Smith, who named Brian Van Gorder the team's defensive coordinator on Thursday.

Ollie Wilson, LaDainian Tomlinson?s first-year position coach, is returning to the Chargers in 2008 to coach the team?s running backs. Wilson signed a two-year contract with the team. The Chargers also agreed to new two-year contract terms with Special Teams Coach Steve Crosby, Quarterbacks Coach John Ramsdell, and Offensive Line Coach Hal Hunter, Jr., completing Head Coach Norv Turner?s staff for the 2008 season. A veteran with 17 years of NFL coaching experience on his resume, Wilson returns to San Diego (1997-2001) after spending the last six seasons with the Atlanta Falcons (2002-07). In his last season with the Chargers, Wilson tutored Tomlinson as a rookie. It was a season that was capped off with LT being named the runner-up for the Associated Press Offensive Rookie of the Year Award. Tomlinson had a monster season, setting team rookie records with 1,236 yards, 10 touchdowns and 1,603 total yards from scrimmage. His scrimmage mark was not only a team rookie record, but it also broke Lance Alworth?s 36-year old team record for scrimmage yards. Tomlinson earned All-Rookie honors from Pro Football Weekly and was tabbed as a third-alternate to the Pro Bowl. Wilson began his coaching career at the collegiate level, spending the 1975 season as the wide receivers coach at his alma mater, Springfield College, the 1976-82 seasons as offensive coordinator at Northeastern University and the 1983-90 seasons as the running backs coach at the University of California-Berkeley. While coaching in college, he participated in the NFL?s Minority Coaching Fellowship Program, spending time working with the coaching staffs of both the Houston Oilers and the Falcons. It helped him land his first full-time NFL coaching job in 1991 when he was named the running backs coach in Atlanta. Wilson spent six seasons (1991-96) with the Falcons during his first stint in Atlanta. He coached three 1,000-yard rushers during that time, including Craig ?Ironhead? Heyward, who was selected to the NFC Pro Bowl team after he rushed for 1,083 yards in 1995. Wilson was initially hired by the Chargers in 1997, coaching running backs under then Head Coach Kevin Gilbride. As a team, the Chargers rushed for more than 1,200 yards in four of his five seasons, including 1,728 yards in 1998 and 1,695 yards in 2001. Wilson returned to Atlanta after the 2001 season and spent the next seven seasons coaching the Falcons? running backs. During those seven seasons combined, no team in the NFL rushed for more yards than the Falcons (13,994 yards). By comparison, the Chargers? 13,157 rushing yards rank third. The Falcons set several team rushing records under his direction, including single-season rushing yards (2,939 in 2006) and single-season rushing touchdowns (23 in 2002). The Falcons? 2,939 rushing yards in ?06 were the ninth-most for a season in NFL history and the most in the league since the Chicago Bears rushed for 2,974 yards in 1984. In 2004, Atlanta rushed for a team-record 2,672 yards, the third-most single-season yards posted by a team between 1990-2004. In a Divisional Playoff game against St. Louis following the ?04 season, the Falcons rushed for a team-record (regular season or postseason) 327 yards against the Rams. Wilson, 56, was born in Worcester, Mass. and he played football, basketball, baseball and ran track at Worcester?s Doherty High School. He went on to Springfield College where he was an honorable mention All-America wide receiver and earned both bachelor?s (physical education) and master?s degrees.

Charlie Joiner, the San Diego Chargers? all-time leading receiver and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, is returning to the Bolts? sidelines to serve as the team?s wide receivers' coach. This is Joiner?s second stint on the Chargers? coaching staff. He also coached wide receivers from 1987-91. In San Diego, he?ll work with a deep and talented receiving corps that includes veterans Chris Chambers, Vincent Jackson, and Eric Parker, along with Buster Davis and Legedu Naanee, both chosen in the 2007 NFL Draft. Joiner played a total of 18 seasons in the AFL and NFL with the Houston Oilers (1969-72), Cincinnati Bengals (1972-75) and Chargers (1976-86). He was drafted by Houston in the fourth round of the 1969 NFL Draft as a defensive back and he retired on Jan. 12, 1987 as the NFL?s all-time leading receiver with 750 career catches. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1996. Joiner?s final career totals included 12,146 yards and 65 TDs. At the time of his retirement, Joiner?s 239 career games played were the most-ever by an NFL wide receiver. ?Charlie brings to our staff 21 years of NFL coaching experience, 18 years of Hall of Fame playing experience and, maybe most important, vast experience with our offensive system,? said Head Coach Norv Turner. ?That combination is rare and we?re fortunate that Charlie was available.? Joiner played 11 seasons in San Diego (1976-86) and finished his career as the team?s all-time leader with 586 career catches. A three-time Pro Bowl choice following the 1976, ?79 & ?80 seasons, Joiner was inducted into the Chargers? Hall of Fame in 1993. His 9,203 receiving yards rank second in team history behind only Lance Alworth and his 47 touchdown catches rank third behind Alworth and Gary Garrison. He was selected as the team?s Most Inspirational Player seven times and he was honored by the City of San Diego on ?Charlie Joiner Day? in 1984 and ?86. Immediately after his retirement, Joiner was named the Bolts? wide receivers coach. One of his star pupils during his five seasons as WRs coach (1987-91) was Anthony Miller, who had a breakout 1,252-yard, 10-touchdown season in 1989 and earned Pro Bowl selections following the ?89 and ?90 seasons. In 1992 Joiner was hired as the wide receivers coach for the Buffalo Bills. He would spend eight seasons (1992-2000) in Western New York, working with a pair of the NFL?s best receivers in Eric Moulds and Andre Reed. During those eight seasons, the Bills went to the playoffs six times, won two AFC Championships and played in Super Bowls XXVII and XXVIII. Moulds had two of the most prolific seasons in Bills history, earning Pro Bowl honors following a team-record 1,368-yard season in 1998 and a 1,326-yard season in 2000. During the ?00 campaign, he also set a team record with 94 catches. Reed spent 15 seasons in Buffalo (1985-99), the last seven with Joiner. He is the Bills? all-time leader in receptions (941), yards (13,095) and touchdown catches (86). Reed was selected to three Pro Bowl teams under Joiner?s tutelage (1992-94), but did not play in the game following the ?93 season due to injury. Joiner?s most recent coaching stop was with the Kansas City Chiefs, spending seven seasons (2001-07) as their wide receivers coach. In 2007 Joiner oversaw the development of rookie Dwyane Bowe, who was the NFL?s leading rookie receiver with 70 catches, 995 yards and five touchdown catches. Bowe averaged an impressive 14.2 yards per catch during his rookie season. Bowe and Davis were college teammates at LSU and fellow first-round draft picks in 2007. Joiner?s stable of wide receivers in Kansas City also included veteran Eddie Kennison, another LSU grad who racked up back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons in 2004 and ?05. A native of Many, Louisiana, Joiner was a four-year letterman at Grambling State University (1965-68). In 1990, he was inducted into the Louisiana Hall of Fame. Joiner is married, Dianne, and has two children, Jynaya and Kori.

The first test for Mike Smith, the former Jaguars defensive coordinator hired by the Falcons on Wednesday night, will be to outlast the 13-game stint of Bobby Petrino, the coach who quit during the season to return to the college ranks. "Mike possesses all of the key qualities we were looking for in a head coach," said GM Thomas Dimitroff, in his first month on the job.

Connecticut football Coach Randy Edsall has agreed to a five-year contract extension, taking him through 2012, ESPN college football reporter Joe Schad has learned. He had two years left on his current contract. Edsall, who made $900,000, will make an average of $1.5 million a year. He had interviewed in December for the Georgia Tech head coaching job but decided to stay at UConn. "I'll stay here as long as they would like me to stay," Edsall said at the time of UConn. "There is still quite a bit of work to be done and I want to continue to do that." UConn shared first place in the Big East in 2007, a first in school history. The Huskies finished 9-4 after losing to Wake Forest in the Meineke Car Care Bowl.

John Harbaugh was hired Friday as head coach of the Ravens, who hope their second choice proves to be a first-rate success. Harbaugh spent this season as Philadelphia's secondary coach after making a name for himself working with special teams. He has never been a head coach but has coaching in his genes -- his father Jack is former head coach at Western Kentucky, and his brother Jim,is head coach at Stanford and a former quarterback with the Ravens. The 45-year-old Harbaugh, who received a four-year contract, will be introduced as the third coach in Ravens' history at a news conference Saturday. His salary wasn't released, but most first-year NFL head coaches get slightly more than $2 million a season.