Bill Belichick is adding another seasoned NFL coach to his staff at North Carolina. Mike Priefer will be the new special teams coordinator for the Tar Heels, according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Priefer, 58, coached special teams for more than two decades across the NFL.

As North Carolina coach Bill Belichick continues to build out his staff in Chapel Hill, he's keeping his promise of having a "strong NFL presence." According to ESPN's Pete Thamel, Belichick and the Tar Heels are working towards finalizing a deal with longtime NFL special teams coach Mike Priefer.

The North Carolina Tar Heels ' football program made one of the biggest surprise hires of the offseason after signing Bill Belichick to a five-year contract with an annual salary of $10 million. However, most of the guarantees are within the first three years of the deal.

It's been one month and one day since North Carolina introduced Bill Belichick as the program's new head coach.

To this point, Belichick has remained committed to North Carolina, even as his coaching staff has yet to take shape. With rumors swirling that his lack of a coaching staff could signal his intent to spurn the Tar Heels and go back to the NFL, Lombardi stepped in to shoot down those concerns.

Bill Belichick has a simple way out of the North Carolina contract as NFL teams reach out about a potential return to coaching.

Belichick famously spurned the New York Jets after he was named Bill Parcells’s successor. His tenure lasted less than 24 hours after he wrote his resignation on a napkin and jumped ship to take over the New England Patriots. This move paid off handsomely.

A report emerged on Wednesday stating that multiple NFL teams with vacancies at head coach approached eight-time Super Bowl champion Bill Belichick about reconsidering his move to college football, where he was announced in December as the next head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels.

North Carolina head coach Bill Belichick found a new way to trend on X, by officially joining the social media website on Monday.

In January 2020, the Mike Vrabel-led Tennessee Titans ended Tom Brady's time in New England by upsetting the Patriots in the wild-card round, 20-13. Five years later, Vrabel was introduced as the 16th head coach of the Patriots.