Brian

Duker

A dark horse to land the New York DC job, Duker, 36, will take over one of the NFL’s worst defenses in 2026 after a season of coaching the Miami secondary. Duker worked with Jets head coach Aaron Glenn when both were in Detroit from 2021 to 2023. Duker will be tasked with improving a New York defense that last year became the first defense in NFL history to not record a single interception. The Jets in 2025 allowed the league’s third highest EPA per play. No team was worse against the pass.

Duker, whose biography at Dolphins.com brings up a “This page cannot be found” result after the takeover of new head coach Jeff Hafley, was part of the Lions staff in 2021-2023 as a defensive backs coach and also worked with the Ravens, 49ers, and Browns in his early days. He’s been Dolphins pass game coordinator and secondary coach for the past two years and, considering the talent he worked with, we’d say he did a pretty great job. He’s the latest entry into a Jets DC search that has seemed to take an abnormally long time.