The Rich Bisaccia era is over in Green Bay. What's next for the Packers?

After four seasons in Green Bay, Rich Bisaccia has stepped down. His exit raises several questions, and not merely about who will replace him as the Packers' special-teams coordinator.

The Green Bay Packers will have at least two different coordinators when they kick off the 2026 season. On Tuesday, the team announced that Rich Bisaccia had stepped down from his roles as special-teams coordinator and assistant head coach.

“While we are disappointed to lose a person and coach as valuable as Rich, we respect his decision to step down from the Packers,” head coach Matt LaFleur said in a team press release. “Rich was a tremendous resource to me and our entire coaching staff, who had a profound impact on our players and our culture throughout the building. We can’t thank him enough for his contributions to our team over the last four years. We wish Rich, his wife, Jeanne, and the rest of their family all the best moving forward.”

The Bisaccia news represents the latest major development for a coaching staff that has already undergone significant turnover since last season. Defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley departed in January for the Miami Dolphins’ head-coaching position, taking multiple Green Bay assistants with him. On the other side of the ball, quarterbacks coach Sean Mannion left to fill the Philadelphia Eagles’ OC opening. Ryan Mahaffey, the Packers’ receivers coach, joined Mannion in Philly soon thereafter.

Bisaccia, who turns 66 in June, considered leaving his position in Green Bay before this offseason. In January of last year, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Tom Silverstein reported that “there were rumblings that Bisaccia might retire” before signing a one-year extension. That deal ran through the 2026 season.

However, Bisaccia made no mention of retirement in his statement included in the Packers’ release:

“After taking some time to reflect over the last few weeks, I have made the decision to step down as the assistant head coach and special-teams coordinator of the Green Bay Packers. I am incredibly grateful to Matt LaFleur, Brian Gutekunst, Ed Policy, and Mark Murphy for their unwavering trust and support throughout my time in Green Bay. I am also thankful to the players for their consistent work and relentless effort to improve every single day. I would like to thank everyone in the organization for their dedication and commitment. The people in this building make it a special place to work.

“I want to also thank our fans and the people throughout the Green Bay community for their passion and love for this team. Coaching for the Green Bay Packers was truly an honor, and I will always be grateful for my time here. I look forward to whatever is next for me and my family, and I wish nothing but the best for everyone in the organization.”

If indeed Bisaccia’s departure represents something other than a retirement -- whether a mutual decision to part ways or a “soft” firing -- perhaps Bisaccia will re-emerge as a special-teams coordinator somewhere else in the future. However, that presumably won’t take place in 2026, at least not in the NFL. Other than the Packers, every team in the league either returns its coordinator from the previous season or has already hired a replacement.

Regardless of Bisaccia’s future, his exit raises several questions, and not merely about who will replace him as the Packers’ special-teams coordinator.