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Vic Fangio hired a new defensive assistant.
The Philadelphia Eagles are adding a highly thought-of coach to their defensive staff.
According to CBS Sports, the Eagles are adding Beyah Rasool as a defensive assistant to help out with the secondary of Vic Fangio’s staff.
Rasool spent 2025 with the Las Vegas Raiders as their defensive quality-control coach after a lengthy career coaching defensive backs in college at Florida, Bowling Green State, Arizona, Missouri and others.
Rasool is a native of Tucson, Arizona who played two years of junior college football at Eastern Arizona College before he got into coaching in 2008. Rasool coached Arizona high-school football in the Greater Tucson area from 2008-11 before coaching junior-college football in Arizona from 2012-16.
Beyah Rasool Has Extensive History Coaching Defensive Backs
The Eagles, of course, lost their DBs coach Christian Parker to the Dallas Cowboys when they named him their defensive coordinator. Even though the Eagles replaced Parker with former Buffalo Bills nickels coach Mike Pellegrino as their DBs coach, they still could use help coaching up their defensive secondary.
So Rasool fills that role. The 2020 graduate of Missouri has been coaching secondaries since 2011, climbing from the ranks of Arizona high schools and community colleges all the way to the NFL after breaking in with Pete Carroll’s staff in Las Vegas last season.
Though the Raiders are picking first in the draft, Rasool helped them finish 14th in pass defense (201.0), despite finishing tied for 25th in interceptions (8).
His most successful season came in 2023 with Bowling Green, when the Falcons finished fourth in FBS in interceptions (17) and were 12th in the country in pass defense (179.8 yards-allowed per game).
Led by Jordan Oladokun and current NFL Draft prospect Jalen Huskey, who each had four interceptions, the Falcons went 7-6 under then-head coach Scot Loeffler and qualified for the Quick Lane Bowl.
In his lone season at Florida, the Gators finished ninth in the SEC in pass defense (226.7), but they finished tied for fourth in the SEC in interceptions (14) after posting just three picks and placing dead last in that stat category in 2023.
Rasool and Pellegrino have big shoes to fill, since the Eagles again had a top-10 pass defense in 2025. They allowed just 189.8 passing-yards per game, the eighth-best mark in the NFL.
Scot Loeffler Likely Recommended Beyah Rasool for a Job With the Eagles
Loeffler is the Eagles quarterbacks coach, but he also was Rasool’s boss Bowling Green. Look at what Loeffler said when, as the Bowling Green head coach in 2023, he hired Rasool to be the Falcons cornerbacks coach and special-teams assistant.
“Beyah Rasool is an up-and-coming talent in our industry,” said Loeffler, according to the Sentinel-Tribune. “Beyah will bring energy and knowledge to our program. He has experience at the ‘Power-5,’ junior college and high school levels that will benefit our student athletes tremendously.”
They haven’t worked together in two-plus years, since Rasool went to Florida and Loeffler is about to embark on his second season as Eagles QBs coach. But it’s safe to assume Loeffler’s thoughts haven’t changed, especially with Rasool also joining the NFL ranks in 2025.