Kim has spent the last seven years on the Patriots staff.
The expected staff changes under new head coach Mike Vrabel have begun for the New England Patriots.
After spending the last seven years with the organization, skill development coach Joe Kim will be moving on in 2025, according to ESPN’s Mike Reiss.
“I’ve had nothing but a positive experience with the Patriots,” said Kim via Reiss. “The time is right for a new challenge.”
Patriots director of skill development Joe Kim, who spent the last seven years tutoring pass-rushers and helping develop younger coaches, is moving on in 2025.
Kim’s work utilizing martial-arts driven techniques, and helping apply them to football, has been noted by players as…
— Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) January 17, 2025
Originally joining the Patriots as a defensive assistant in 2018, Kim was promoted to director of skill development in 2020. It was there Kim continued to work with pass rushers using his Taekwondo background to teach martial arts-driven techniques.
Kim originally entered the NFL with the Cleveland Browns under head coach Bill Belichick in 1992. He served as the team’s assistant strength coach and pass-rush specialist through 1995 before moving on. Kim went on to work for nine other NFL organizations before landing with the Patriots.
A Seventh Dan Black Belt in Taekwondo, Kim additionally founded Football Combatives in 2017, a program that utilizes those martial arts techniques and applies them to the game of football.