New Browns head coach Todd Monken is looking to bring another one of Baltimore’s offensive assistant coaches with him to Cleveland.
Per Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, Travis Switzer is the frontrunner to become Cleveland’s offensive coordinator.
Switzer spent the last nine seasons with the Ravens, the last three as the team’s run game coordinator alongside Monken as offensive coordinator. Derrick Henry posted 1,921 yards in 2024 and 1,595 yards in 2025 with Monken and Switzer.
Switzer had served in several different roles with Baltimore, also working with the receivers and tight ends.
To this point, Monken has not announced whether or not he will call the offensive plays for Cleveland.
Todd Monken is in the Browns facility on Friday for the first time since agreeing to become the team’s head coach and a chat with quarterback Shedeur Sanders was on the list of his activities on the first day.
The Browns posted video of Sanders meeting Monken in an office and their interaction featured a callback to last year’s draft. Monken was the Ravens’ offensive coordinator at the time and there were reports, later confirmed by Sanders’s father Deion, that Sanders told Baltimore not to draft him a few picks before Cleveland selected him in the fifth round.
Monken reminded Sanders of that as the two men shook hands.
“We tried to draft your ass last year for God’s sake,” Monken said. “It all worked out. You remember that, right? Some day we’ll get a chance to talk about that.”
Deion Sanders explained that the family asked the Ravens — and the Eagles — to pass because they didn’t want Shedeur to be set up for a long run as a backup to an established starter. That approach worked out as the younger Sanders spent the second half of the season as Cleveland’s starter and the Ravens’ interest in him last year could be a good sign for his chances of getting a shot to continue in the starting role with Monken in Cleveland.
Ravens head coach Jesse Minter called the defensive plays for the Chargers the last two seasons and he won’t be giving up that responsibility in his new job.
Minter held his first press conference since getting hired in Baltimore on Thursday and said that the team is closing in on coordinator hires that will help shape his coaching staff. The eventual defensive coordinator will not be charged with calling the plays, however.
“I do plan on calling the defense,” Minter said. “I think that’s a strength of mine. I think that’s one of the reasons I’m sitting here.”
Minter said that his leadership ability is another one of the reasons he landed the job and that he feels he has a “really good process” for making sure that he will be managing the whole team while also making the defensive calls. The eventual hire at offensive coordinator will play a significant role in any process that Minter puts in place and there will be plenty of interest in the direction the Ravens go on that front.
The Ravens made Jesse Minter their new head coach and one of the keys to his chances of success in Baltimore will be quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Jackson has not made any public comments about the team’s decision to hire Minter as John Harbaugh’s successor, but Minter had his first chance to talk about the quarterback in an interview with the team’s website. After a clip of Minter praising Jackson from Minter’s time as the Chargers’ defensive coordinator, the new head coach was asked about the opportunity to work with Jackson.
‘It’s really special,” Minter said. “Had some great talks with Lamar. Really look forward to continuing to build a great relationship with him. He is the best player in the National Football League. It’s been proven, he’s won the awards that show that. It’s our job to just continue to help him grow and help him build. To have that guy behind center, you know you have a chance to win every time you take the field.”
Jackson has two years left on his current contract and team owner Steve Bisciotti said this month that his hope is to sign Jackson to an extension that extends that stay while also lowering his cap number for the coming season. An agreement on such a deal from Jackson would be a good sign that he has a similar opinion about a partnership the Ravens hope can get them over the postseason hump.
One of John Harbaugh’s most trusted assistants has decided to stay in Baltimore and will not follow Harbaugh to New York.
Ravens senior special teams coach Randy Brown will remain with the Ravens and have a similar role on new Baltimore head coach Jesse Minter’s staff, according to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network.
Brown was an assistant who worked closely with Harbaugh when Harbaugh was the Eagles’ special teams coordinator, and Brown followed Harbaugh to Baltimore in 2008.
Brown was a college kicker and has coached kickers in both college and the NFL. He also has had a highly unusual second job during much of his NFL coaching career, having been elected mayor of Evesham Township, New Jersey, in 2007, and serving in that capacity for 12 years.
Strong special teams were a hallmark of Harbaugh’s tenure with the Ravens, and Minter will hope Brown can continue that.
