The Washington Redskins on Tuesday named Bradford Banta as assistant special teams coach, Shane Day as assistant offensive line/offensive quality control coach and Jake Peetz as offensive quality control coach.
In addition, the team announced it will retain Aubrey Pleasant, who will serve as defensive quality control coach in 2014 after serving as offensive assistant for the Redskins last season.
The moves finalize new coach Jay Gruden’s coaching staff for the 2014 season.
Banta spent the last six seasons with the Detroit Lions in various coaching capacities. From 2012-13, Banta served as the Lions’ assistant linebackers coach and from 2008-11, he served as the assistant special teams coach.
Day joins the Redskins with 13 years of coaching experience across the high school, collegiate and professional levels. Day is a veteran of five NFL seasons, assisting the San Francisco 49ers in a quality control role from 2007-09 and coaching quarterbacks for the Chicago Bears from 2010-11. Day spent the last two seasons as the quarterbacks coach for the University of Connecticut.
Peetz spent the 2013 season as an analyst for the football program at Alabama, helping the Crimson Tide to an 11-2 record. Peetz spent five seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars from 2008-12.
Pleasant, 27, spent the 2011-12 seasons as a defensive assistant at Michigan before joining the Redskins as an offensive assistant in 2013.