DC Noel Thorpe will be doing double duty as a coach following the reshuffling of the Ottawa coaching staff.

Four went out, three came in, but it looks as if the Ottawa Redblacks coaching staff is complete for 2018.
The Redblacks, who decided not to re-sign receivers coach Travis Moore, defensive backs coach Ike Charlton, offensive line coach Bryan Chiu and linebackers coach Derek Oswalt, have shuffled the rest of the staff for head coach Rick Campbell.
With Noel Thorpe coming in as Redblacks defensive co-ordinator — he was Montreal Alouettes defensive co-ordinator and assistant head coach for five seasons before being fired last September — former defensive co-ordinator Mark Nelson has been re-assigned as linebackers coach. Thorpe will also be defensive backs coach.
Winston October is the new receivers coach, while Canadian Football League newcomer John McDonell will be offensive-line coach. Patrick Bourgon moves from offensive assistant to defensive assistant.
Campbell was already calling many of the defensive plays in 2017, so why bring in a new defensive co-ordinator?
Said Redblacks general manager Marcel Desjardins, who is at CFL winter meetings in Alberta: “It’s partially because we felt we needed to secure Noel’s services, and it wasn’t going to be as a position coach. Coach Nelson understood — he had worked with Noel — that having Noel as our co-ordinator would make us a better defence and a better team. “He’s somebody who can create an identity on our defence. He knows the league, he knows the personnel. I know it was out there that maybe Rick was going to be the co-ordinator, but that would have spread him thin. Having Rick, having Noel and having Mark, all with experience as a co-ordinator, will make us a better defence.” Desjardins said “it was always the premise” when Thorpe was hired that he would also coach Redblacks defensive backs.
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