The Colts have added five new members to head coach Shane Steichen’s staff ahead of the 2026 season, the team announced Monday, along with several title or position changes within the crew that will work together to tackle Steichen’s fourth season at the helm.
The most notable changes comes at the lead of the team’s defensive line, as Marion Hobby, a longtime coach in the NFL and college ranks, takes over a unit set to see a sizable amount of turnover on the depth chart this offseason. Hobby hops from Arkansas, where he was hired to the same role by the Razorbacks only in December after serving the 2025 season as a defensive analyst at his alma mater, Tennessee. Hobby previously served as a defensive line coach in the NFL with the Jaguars (2017-18), Dolphins (2019-20) and Bengals (2021-24) – the last stint under Colts defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo, who enters his second season in charge of Steichen’s defense.
In his 31 years of coaching, Hobby has also spent stints in college at UT-Martin (1995), Louisiana-Lafayette (1996-97), Tennessee (1998), Ole Miss (1999-2004), Duke (2008-10) and Clemson (2011-16) after a three NFL career with the Patriots (1990-92) as a starter at defensive end after the former third-round pick was selected and then traded by the Vikings.
Hobby takes over for Charlie Partridge, who was named this offseason to Notre Dame’s coaching staff in the same role after two seasons with the Colts.
Steichen has also hired two new defensive quality control coaches in Jeremy Bruce and Dillon Doyle. Bruce makes a leap to the NFL ranks after spending eight years coaching in college, most recently as UNLV’s outside linebackers coach this past season. Before that, the former college football player had worked as a graduate assistant either with linebackers or the defensive line units at Whittier (2018-19), Wyoming (2020), Fresno State (2021), Oregon State (2021-22), SMU (2023) and Kentucky (2024).
Doyle enters his second year in the NFL after working last season as a seasonal intern with the Bills. This past spring, he served as an offensive assistant at Central Michigan after a college career playing linebacker at Iowa (2018-19) and Baylor 2020-22). He’s the younger brother of Declan Doyle, who the Ravens recently hired as the team’s new offensive coordinator. Last season, the Colts had just one defensive quality control coach, Brent Jackson, who was recently named to a similar role with the Cardinals.
The Colts have also hired a new game management coordinator, Aditya Krishnan, to replace the outgoing Charlie Gelman, the former game manager who landed a role this offseason with the Ravens as a defensive assistant and game manager. Krishnan spent five years with the Chargers as the team’s director of football research (2020-24) after working four years for the Browns as a football research analyst (2017-20). Before his time in the NFL. Krishnan was a senior financial analyst for Home Depot (2016-17) and a pricing analyst for Celadon Group (2014-15), and he’s currently pursuing his masters of business administration at the Harvard Business School – having already landed a masters in analytics from NC State.
The Colts also hired Tyrell Brown to be the team’s new strength and condition assistant, following nine years on the human performance or strength and conditioning staffs in college at TCU (2022-26), Middle Tennessee (2019-21), Troy (2019), Washburn (2018-19) and Kansas (2017-18).
Also this offseason, the Colts have retooled the role of Mikey Blazejowski, who has been named the team’s performance science analyst after four years in various strength and conditioning, performance science and sports science analytics roles that began in 2022.
The team has also elevated its two Tony Dungy Fellows from the past two seasons on the offensive and defensive sides of the ball. Kalon Humphries will now serve as the team’s assistant defensive line coach, replacing the outgoing Matt Raich, who spent six years as an assistant defensive line coach in Indianapolis. Diego Ortiz will work in offensive quality control. Brent Stockstill, who spent the last two seasons as a defensive assistant in Indianapolis, will also work in offensive quality control.
Previously this offseason, the Colts lost offensive quality control and assistant wide receivers coach Brian Bratton, who was hired to be the lead receivers coach at Stanford. Doug McKenney, the Colts’ longtime employee in applied sports science and conditioning since 2018, is also not listed as part of this season’s coaching staff.
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This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Colts announce 2026 coaching staff including multiple changes at defensive line
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