{"id":415858,"date":"2023-02-17T14:32:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T19:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=415858"},"modified":"2023-03-01T09:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:58:58","slug":"broncos-hire-ben-kotwica-as-special-teams-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/broncos-hire-ben-kotwica-as-special-teams-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos hire Ben Kotwica as special teams coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/denver-broncos\/\">Denver Broncos<\/a> has been hired Ben Kotwica as their new special teams coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old Kotwica most recently served as an assistant special teams coach with the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/minnesota-vikings\/\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, he served as ST coordinator for the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/atlanta-falcons\/\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> (2019-2020) and Washington (2014-2018). He also coached with the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/new-york-jets\/\">New York Jets<\/a> from 2007-2013, primarily on special teams.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos fired special teams coordinator Dwayne Stukes after just 15 games in 2022 &#8211; the move happened the same day former head coach Nathaniel Hackett was let go.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THIS JUST IN: A turn of events, Ben Kotwica has been hired as the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Broncos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Broncos<\/a> new special teams coach, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JPFinlayNBCS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JPFinlayNBCS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Denver Broncos 365 (@DailyBroncos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyBroncos\/status\/1626648639505412098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Denver Broncos has been hired Ben Kotwica as their new special teams coordinator. The 48-year-old Kotwica most recently served as an assistant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":415860,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17488,16777,17167,17056],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"\u00a0He previously worked at Jets, Vikings and Minnesota Vikings","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415858"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=415858"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=415858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}