Mike Treier is in his second season with the Giants and his first as the team's assistant defensive backs coach. He will assist Jerome Henderson in coaching the secondary. In Treier's debut season with the Giants in 2020, he was the team's defensive quality control coach, his first NFL position.
The defensive staff coached one of the NFL's most improved units last season. The defense ranked ninth in the league by allowing 357 points, 94 fewer than their total in 2019.
The Giants were 12th in the league by allowing 349.3 yards-per-game after finishing 27th at 377.3 yards the previous season. It was their best defensive finish since 2016, when they were 10th in the league by allowing 339.7 yards a game. Giants opponents averaged just 5.3 yards a play, the NFL's ninth-lowest figure.
One year after placing 20th in the NFL, the rushing defense ranked 10th, allowing 111.4 yards a game. That was also their best figure since 2016 (when they were tied for third at 88.6 rushing yards a game). The pass defense jumped from 28th in the league in 2019 to a tie for 16th by giving up 237.9 yards game, the team's lowest figure since 2013, when the Giants allowed 223.3 yards a game through the air and were 10th in the league.
Treier joined the Giants from Marshall University, where he coached from 2017-19 in his second stint with the school.
In 2019, Treier was the safeties coach and recruiting coordinator for a Thundering Herd team that finished 8-5, including 6-2 in Conference USA. In addition to his duties as safeties coach and recruiting coordinator, Treier was also heavily involved in Marshall's special teams, especially in the punt game where the Herd excelled during Treier's entire tenure.
Trier spent a second season as Marshall's cornerbacks coach in 2018, when the Herd was 9-4 overall and 6-2 in the conference and finished third in the league by allowing only 21.8 points a game. Marshall tied for fifth in the conference with 12 interceptions. Cornerback Chris Jackson was named second-team All-Conference USA and Steven Gilmore was selected to the league's all-freshman team.
Treier returned to Marshall as the cornerbacks coach in 2017. Jackson, then a sophomore, was chosen honorable mention all-conference after leading the team with three interceptions.
In 2016, Treier was named the secondary coach at UT-Martin. By the end of that season, he had been promoted to the SkyHawks' defensive coordinator position.
Treier first coached at Marshall in 2013-15, when he was a graduate assistant.
Treier was raised in Lancaster, Pa. and attend Penn Manor High School in Millersville, Pa. He has a bachelor's degree in business management from Temple University.
2011-2012 Temple University defensive student assistant
2013-15 Marshall University graduate assistant
2016 University of Tennessee at Martin secondary/co-defensive coordinator
2017-18 Marshall University cornerbacks/recruiting coordinator
2019 Marshall University safeties/recruiting coordinator
2020 New York Giants defensive quality control
2021 New York Giants assistant defensive backs
