Jen Welter Comments on Coaching in NFL After Bills Hire Kathryn Smith

January 22, 2016   ·   Mike Norris   ·   Jump to comments

Kathryn Smith became the NFL's first female full-time assistant coach Wednesday, when the Buffalo Bills hired her as a special teams quality-control coach, a move she acknowledged as "groundbreaking" on the team's website (via Mike Rodak of ESPN.com).

It undoubtedly was groundbreaking, but Jen Welter helped paved the way for Smith. Welter became the first woman to coach in the NFL when she was an intern with the Arizona Cardinals during their 2015 training camp. According to Josh Weinfuss of ESPN.com, Welter was happy to see the NFL moving forward in terms of hiring women.
"I think it's an honor to know that what we did in Arizona has really changed the game for other women," Welter told ESPN.com on Thursday.
Smith, 30, started as an intern in 2003 with the New York Jets. She later became a college scouting intern and then a full-time administrative assistant in the personnel department. She was former head coach Rex ...

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