Under new head coach Mike Vrabel, the kicking game will remain in the same hands.

The New England Patriots have retained special teams coordinator Jeremy Springer for 2025, as first reported Monday by NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport.

Springer, 35, joined the staff last hiring cycle under previous head coach Jerod Mayo. A resurgence in the third phase followed. His units combined to rank second around the league with a Pro Football Focus grade of 90.3. And by the end of the 4-13 season, gunner Brenden Schooler had picked up where retired captain Matthew Slater left off, becoming a Pro Bowler as well as an NFLPA All-Pro, AP first-team All-Pro and PFWA All-NFL selection.

“My approach is to get back to the elite level that it’s been in the past,” Springer told reporters during his introductory press conference last February. “Slater left, and those guys, and the Super Bowl runs that they had. Get to a level of being in the top five, being a team where every play we take the field teams got to prepare for us because we’re going to play at an elite level.”

Before heading to the AFC East, Springer spent two years with the Los Angeles Rams as a special teams assistant under head coach Sean McVay. It marked the first NFL stop for the former UTEP quarterback, linebacker and team captain, who worked as an assistant in football operations during his playing career and later as a graduate assistant at his alma mater.

Springer went on to serve as the special teams quality control coach at Texas A&M from 2015 through 2017 before becoming the special teams coordinator at Arizona in 2018 and Marshall in 2021.

He was accompanied last season in New England by veteran special teams assistant Tom Quinn, a two-time Super Bowl champion who spent the 2023 campaign on Vrabel’s Tennessee Titans staff.

“As with any staff, there’s going to be turnover,” the 16th head coach in Patriots history said last week. “There’s going to be new coaches and new faces, some that I will have history with and some that I won’t.”