The Washington Commanders completed their coaching staff for the 2025 season. He was rounded off by the grandson of NFL legend John Madden.
As the Commanders announced on Tuesday, they have signed Jesse Madden as a new offensive Quality Control Coach. Madden is the grandson of the legendary Raiders coach, advertising star, TV expert and face of the video game “Madden NFL”, John Madden.
Jesse Madden comes directly from college, where he was active as a backup at the University of Michigan for four years. First he played quarterback, later defensive back. In January 2024 he won the National Championship with the Wolverines. Naturally, this is his first NFL job.
In addition, the Commanders also announced Brian Schneider’s commitment. He comes to the capital as an assistant Special Teams Coach. Previously, from 2022 to 2023 Special Teams, he was coordinator of the San Francisco 49ers. He previously worked in the same role at the Seattle Seahawks under Pete Carroll from 2010 to 2020.
Big name is not a burden
Madden, in turn, revealed the “Los Angeles Times” in 2024 that in fact he also plays the video game with his teammates, which his grandfather made so famous. However, a burden is by no means a burden for him: “For me it is not crazy because I don’t know it any other way all my life.”
It has also been handed down that Jesse Madden grew up to study John Madden’s Raiders teams. As the “Bay Area News Group” reported at the time, he organized unofficial training sessions with his classmates during the pandemic at the high school at the high school and learned 1,600 moves.
John Madden told the newspaper about his grandson at the time: “His work ethic is amazing. Even when nothing was going on because of Covid, he trained every day as if he were to play.” And he saw Jesse once on TV – at the victory of the Wolverines over Northern Illinois in 2021. In December of that year, John Madden died at the age of 85.