
Henry Baker is the newest member of the New York Giants coaching staff.

In a move that was reported by multiple retailers, which includes Soccer Scoop, Baker will be a part of the Giants coaching staff as an assistant defensive mentor. Baker will provide as the Giants assistant defensive backs mentor in 2019. This posture was earlier held by Deshea Townsend through the 2018 time but it was vacant soon after he resolved to signal to mentor on the Chicago Bears defensive staff for the 2019 time.

Baker was re-employed by the Rutgers football staff before this offseason and he was established to take around as the cornerbacks mentor and passing sport coordinator. The Giants appreciated what they observed from Baker and they poached him from Rutgers’ staff. Baker served as the North Carolina Tar Heels cornerback mentor in 2018 soon after paying out the 2017 time with Rutgers in the exact posture.

Sam Hellman of 247Sports who has lined the Rutgers defeat delivered some additional background on what Baker provides to the Giants as an assistant mentor:

Baker was at the start of his second stint in Piscataway, N.J. Baker grew up in close by Patterson and attended the College of Maryland. Rutgers employed Baker soon after a coaching alter at North Carolina, promoting him to passing sport coordinator soon after he spent 2017 as an assistant defensive backs mentor. He specialised in cornerbacks given that 2011, but also has encounter with safeties and on exclusive groups.

Baker’s addition could give the Giants some perception into defensive backs later on in the approaching NFL Draft. Baker coached Blessuan Austin, Isaiah Wharton and Saquan Hampton, who are all regarded as mid-to-late round potential clients out of Rutgers.

“I’m from the condition of New Jersey,” Baker instructed 247Sports in February of 2017. “The chance to occur home and essentially mentor in front of a whole lot of men and women who invested in me when I was a university student-athlete coming out of East Side Large School. A whole lot of men and women who had been invested in my profession, coaches who had been mentors to me and things like that. The chance to be equipped to occur back again home, that drew me initial and foremost. Then, you have to glance at conference like the Massive Ten – one particular of, if not the, most competitive conference in the state.


The Giants coaching staff stays mostly unchanged heading into the 2019 offseason and we hope it to keep that way. For the duration of his last radio place with WFAN’s Mike Francesa, initial-year head mentor Pat Shurmur all but confirmed his objective to bring back again the complete 2018 staff. Shurmur was questioned exclusively about the offensive coordinator posture and he gave a ringing endorsement for Mike Shula. For the duration of the early aspect of the 2018 time, there was chatter all-around the risk of changing offensive line mentor Hal Hunter but the Giants’ offensive line turned it all-around in the second fifty percent and that excitement has simmered.
