Sean Payton rounded out his first Broncos coaching staff Saturday with a familiar, veteran face and several young additions, Parker Gabriel of the Denver Post reports.

Payton is hiring longtime Saints linebackers coach Joe Vitt as a senior defensive assistant and LSU assistant Jamar Cain as a pass-rush coaching specialist in Denver, the franchise announced Saturday.

The Broncos also formally acknowledged the hires of several other staffers, as well, in addition to several previously reported assistant coaches, as well.

Vitt was the linebackers coach in New Orleans from 2006-16 and served as the Saints’ interim head coach for the second part of the 2012 season when Payton was suspended for the entire year because of the Bounty Gate scandal. Vitt was suspended for the first six games of the season because of the scandal, but then joined Aaron Kromer as interim coach when the suspension was finished.

The 2022 season was Cain’s first in Baton Rouge. Before that, he spent two seasons coaching at Oklahoma, where his pupils included current Broncos second-year outside linebacker Nik Bonitto. Before that, he spent the 2019 season at Arizona State.

At 42, Cain joins defensive line coach Marcus Dixon and outside linebackers coach Michael Wilhoite as a young, dynamic set of coaches working with the Broncos front seven, while inside linebackers coach Greg Manusky brings several years of coordinating experience to the mix.

In addition to those two, the Broncos acknowledged the hires of quarterbacks coach Davis Webb, running backs coach Lou Ayeni and assistant offensive line coach Austin King.

Zack Grossi is staying on as one of the few holdovers from the 2022 staff and will serve as an offensive quality control coach. He was hired a year ago by Nathaniel Hackett and earned praise from several coaches, including interim head coach Jerry Rosburg late in the season.

Other support staff hires announced Saturday by Payton: Fellow offensive quality control coaches Logan Kilgore and Favian Upshaw and defensive quality control coaches Isaac Shewmaker and Addison Lynch.

Kilgore was most recently the offensive coordinator at Isidore Newman School in Louisiana, the high school alma mater of now-Texas quarterback Arch Manning, Peyton Manning’s nephew.

Payton is also hiring Shaun Snee as an assistant strength coach. Snee ran the University of Wisconsin football’s strength program the past two seasons and had been at the school for eight years.

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