Todd Bowles has made another hire to the Jets' coaching staff.

Jeff Hammerschmidt, who spent the last four seasons as the special teams coordinator and as a position coach at Colorado State University, has been hired by the Jets as a special teams assistant, a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed to NJ Advance Media on Friday.

That person spoke on condition of anonymity.

Word of Hammerschmidt's hire was first reported by Alex Marvez of Fox Sports.

Hammerschmidt will work under ex-Colts assistant Brant Boyer, who was officially hired this week to be the Jets' special teams coordinator.

Bowles, the Jets' head coach, had fired special teams coordinator Bobby April and assistant special teams coach Steve Hagen right after the 2015 season, during which the Jets had one of the NFL's worst special teams units.

Hammerschmidt has 24 years of coaching experience, all at a variety of stops at the college level. He served as the defensive coordinator at Saint Mary's from 2000-02, and then at Montana from 2003-04.

Hammerschmidt joined the staff at CSU in 2012 as the special teams coordinator under head coach Jim McElwain. After McElwain left for the University of Florida last year, Hammerschmidt was retained as the special teams coordinator and tight ends coach.

A native of San Diego, Hammerschmidt was a first-team all-Pac 10 defensive back at the University of Arizona, where he earned a sociology degree in 1991.

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