Engstrand, despite his lack of experience as an NFL coordinator and his changeup in the styles of his starting QBs, has a résumé to excite any fan of offensive football. In his SoCal phase, he moved seamlessly from backup QB at San Diego State to the University of San Diego, where he moved from graduate assistant (under Jim Harbaugh) to position coach to OC from 2011-17, with his Toreros offenses averaging a healthy 33.0 points/game over his 70 games as coordinator.
Then, after a one-year reunion with Harbaugh as an offensive analyst at Michigan and a UFL pit stop cut short by Covid in '20, he entered his Detroit years with four seasons on the same Lions staff as then-DC Glenn and the past three seasons as their pass game coordinator under OC Ben Johnson. So the NFL rankings are not all just Engstrand's (Johnson, now the Bears' HC, and Goff figured prominently as well). But Engstrand still contributed to the Lions' total offense (4th-3rd-2nd), pass offense (8th-2nd-2nd) and scoring offense (5th-5th-1st).
He knows offensive football and, besides Fields, he likes what he's "inherited" on the Jets.
"That is a blessing, to come in and already have weapons in place," he said of his skill players, mentioning two in particular in RB Breece Halland WR Garrett Wilson. "Breece has shown in his career that he can run the ball, whether it's between the tackles or outside, and he's caught a ton of passes in his career, which is very beneficial for us.
"Garrett has shown to be an explosive player and we're going to hopefully continue to do that. I know AG talked about, 'Hey, what are we going to do with Garrett? We're going to give him the ball as much as we can.' And you know what? I'm in on it. And so I feel really good about that, about those guys."