# Why Lions’ Scottie Montgomery moved from coaching running backs to receivers
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Scottie Montgomery was being pulled in two directions this offseason.
On one hand, the Detroit Lions assistant head coach wanted to get back involved with the passing game. That’s where he’s comfortable. He played receiver at Duke in the late 1990s and enjoyed a four-year NFL career before he transitioned into coaching the position at his alma mater in 2006.
On the other, Montgomery developed an incredibly deep bond with running backs Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery. He was hired to be Detroit’s running backs coach in 2023, and the Gibbs-Montgomery
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quality pass blocking: “When you saw Jahmyr (or) you saw David with those monster runs — but if you also looked in the background — you saw Jamo leading it (as a blocker), you saw Saint knocking somebody out, you saw something going on from the receiver position,” he said.
Montgomery has already seen the difference in leadership style between a couple of veterans, in David Montgomery and St. Brown. The former “goes at the young guys really, really quickly,” while the latter takes a more soft-spoken approach.
But as for what else he’s discovered about how the personalities at receiver compare to those at running back, he’s still learning.
“Ask me in five or six weeks”