The Denver Broncos have hired Joe Lombardi as offensive coordinator under Sean Payton.

Lombardi was a New Orleans Saints offensive assistant and then quarterbacks coach from 2007-2013 under Payton. Lombardi spent two seasons as offensive coordinator of the Detroit Lions before returning to the Saints as quarterbacks coach from 2016 until 2020.

Payton spent the past two seasons as offensive coordinator of the Los Angeles Chargers. 

Russell Wilson pushed to have Pete Carroll fired before his departure from the Seattle Seahawks, according to a report by The Athletic.

The report states that Wilson asked Seahawks ownership in February 2022 to fire Carroll and general manager John Schneider with hopes that the team would hire Sean Payton to be the coach

Instead, Wilson was traded to the Denver Broncos in March.

Wilson denied pushing for the firings, tweeting Friday morning that Carroll "was a father figure to me" and that Schneider "believed in me and drafted me as well."

"I never wanted them fired. All any of us wanted was to win," Wilson wrote. "I'll always have respect for them and love for Seattle."

The Denver Broncos have hired Vance Joseph as defensive coordinator. 

Joseph coached the Broncos in 2017 and 2018 before then-general manager John Elway fired him following a 6-10 season.

Joseph spent the past four seasons as defensive coordinator of the Arizona Cardinals.

Sean Payton also interviewed Rex Ryan, Sean Desai and Christian Parker for the job.

Matt Patricia spent Wednesday interviewing with the Denver Broncos about the team's vacant defensive coordinator position, according to a report.

Patricia is believed to be one of three finalists for the job, joining Rex Ryan and Vance Joseph.

Rex Ryan interviewed to become defensive coordinator of the Denver Broncos under Sean Payton.

Ryan and former Broncos head coach Vance Joseph are among a handful of candidates for the job. 

Ryan  joined ESPN in April 2017 after a nearly 30-year coaching career that included eight seasons as an NFL head coach with the New York Jets (2009-14) and Buffalo Bills(2015-16). 

Sean Payton is close to bringing Rex Ryan in as the Denver Broncos' defensive coordinator, according to a report.

Ryan has served as an analyst for ESPN for the past several years. He hasn't coached in the NFL since 2016.

A six-month investigation into Russell Wilson's Why Not You Foundation was published by the USA Today, which detailed that it spent twice as much money on its employees than it contributed to charitable activities. 

Wilson's foundation reported it spent $600,000 on charity and $1.1 million on employee salaries and benefits from 2020-2021, according to federal tax records obtained by USA Today. In the simplest of terms, that means the Why Not You Foundation spent 21.3 cents of every dollar on charitable activities in 2020 and 27.2 cents of every dollar on charitable activities in 2021. Over the past eight years, only 39.6 cents of every dollar was spent on charity, per tax documents.

Ryan Tarpley, the CEO of the foundation who also works for Ciara and Russell Wilson’s family office, made more than $200,000 annually over the past two years, while executive director Carly Young earned more than $150,000 annually during the same timeframe.

Sean Payton was formally introduced as head coach of the Denver Broncos on Monday and he preached discipline, an eye for details and a focused pursuit of winning that "is not for everybody."

Payton was hired largely to help Russell Wilson, who struggled in his first season with the team.

Asked if Wilson could continue to have a personal quarterback coach -- Jake Heaps -- as well as other support personnel to work with the quarterback in the building, Payton was clear on where he stood.

"I'm not too familiar with that," Payton said when asked about Wilson having Heaps in the building with access this past season. "That's foreign to me -- that's not going to take place. I'm unfamiliar with it. Our staff will be here, our players will be here and that will be it."

The Carolina Panthers have hired Ejiro Everto as defensive coordinator.

Evero spent last season as defensive coordinator of the Denver Broncos. Evero asked Sean Payton to let him out of his contract to explore other opportunities. 

Evero was a head coaching candidate for the Panthers, Arizona Cardinals and Indianapolis Colts.

The Denver Broncos will pay Sean Payton "somewhere between" $17 million and $20 million per year as head coach, under a contract that will be at least five years, according to a report.

Payton had reportedly been seeking between $20 million and $25 million annually.