Devin Fitzsimmons joined the Seahawks staff as assistant special teams coach on February 15, 2024. He spent the 2023 season with the Carolina Panthers as special teams assistant after serving in the same role with Arizona (2021-22). Fitzsimmons, now in his 20th year of coaching, begins his 12th year as part of special teams units in college and the NFL.
As a special teams assistant in 2023, Fitzsimmons helped coach Carolina's kick return unit to the second-best return average in the NFL, averaging 27.2 yards per return. Raheem Blackshear, who served as the unit's primary returner boasted a 27.8-yard kick return average that ranked third-best in the NFL amongst players with at least 10 returns.
With Arizona (2021), Fitzsimmons helped specialists, kicker Matt Prater and punter Andy Lee, post record-breaking seasons. Prater finished with 137 points, the second-highest total in Cardinals history and tied for the fourth-highest total in the NFL. Lee finished third in the league and established a franchise single-season record with a 49.0-yard punting average.
Fitzsimmons was the special teams coordinator/tight ends coach at Vanderbilt (2019-20) and served as assistant special teams coach with Detroit (2014-18). In 2015 following head coaching changes, Fitzsimmons served as the Lions tight end coach for the final eight games of the season. In that span, the tight ends combined for 32 catches, 316 yards and four touchdowns.
During his five seasons with the Lions, Prater, then with Detroit, converted 86.3 percent of his kicks (132 for 153) and was selected to the Pro Bowl (2016), while punter Sam Martin averaged at least 43.0 yards per punt each year during Fitzsimmons' tenure. Long snapper Don Muhlbach earned Pro Bowl honors (2018), while returner Jamal Agnew earned first-team All-Pro recognition (2017) after posting a league leading 15.4-yard punt return average and two punt return touchdowns.
Fitzsimmons was the special teams coordinator and tight ends coach at Delaware (2013) and an offensive assistant at Rutgers (2012), before his start in the NFL as an offensive quality control coach with Indianapolis (2011).
Starting his coaching career at Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C. (2005), Fitzsimmons served as the wide receivers coach at his alma mater, Bucknell (2006), before working on the collegiate level at Kansas State (2007-08), Virginia (2009), and Richmond (2010).
A Folsom, La. native, Fitzsimmons played quarterback and wide receiver at Bucknell and earned a bachelor's degree in history. Fitzsimmons and his wife, Katie have a son, Liam, and daughter, Nora.
