New York Jets

The Jets are on the verge of hiring Rex Hogan as their director of college scouting and Brian Heimerdinger to a lead front-office role, reports the NFL Network.

Hogan served as a national scout for the Bears, but was released from his contract. Hogan has been a scout with the Bears since 2004. Heimerdinger has been working as a scout for the Rams for the last three seasons.

The Jets named Pepper Johnson their new defensive line coach on Saturday, according to the team's official website. The news comes just a day after the team hired Kacy Rodgers to be the new defensive coordinator.

Johnson coached for the Patriots from 2000 to 2013 before joining Buffalo's staff as the defensive line coach last season. He interviewed for several defensive coordinator vacancies before joining Todd Bowles' staff. Both Bowles and Johnson have ties to former Jets and Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells. Johnson played under Parcells with the Giants from 1986-92, then with the Jets in 1997-98.

The Jets announced Friday they hired Kacy Rodgers as defensive coordinator and Bobby April Jr. as special teams coordinator.

Rodgers has spent the last seven seasons as the Dolphins defensive line coach. Rodgers has worked with Jets coach Todd Bowles in Dallas and Miami.

The Jets will be the eighth team April Jr. has worked for in his NFL career. He spent the last two seasons as the Raiders' special teams coordinator.

The Bills will add Anthony Lynn as the team's running backs coach, according to NFL.com.

Lynn held the same position with the Jets from 2009 through last season under new Bills head coach Rex Ryan. Lynn received an interview for the Jets' head coaching position after Ryan was dismissed, but did not receive the job. 

David Lee has returned to his role as the Bills quarterbacks coach after spending the last two seasons as the Jets quarterbacks coach, where he spent a great deal of time tutoring Geno Smith. 

While Lee was complimentary of the progress Smith made late in the 2014 season, he didn't have any issues opening up about Smith's struggles as well.

“Rex and I talked about it. He had some inconsistency, and the up-and-down part is what killed us,” Lee told the Bills' official website. “He would get loose with the football. We played good enough defense to win over there both years, but his play, it’ll cost you and it cost us.

"But he also did some great things. The last five games this season he was the seventh-rated passer in the league. He had a perfect passer rating in his last game at Miami. The potential and ability is there.” 

Smith had a 97.9 passer rating over the Jets' final five games in 2014. However, he was benched in favor of Michael Vick for a stretch this season and finished 29th in the league with a passer rating of 77.5.