The Ravens have found their quarterbacks coach.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Israel Woolfork will have that position on Jesse Minter’s staff in Baltimore. Tee Martin held the same job during the 2025 season, but will not be back with the Ravens.
Woolfork spent the last three seasons as the quarterbacks coach for the Cardinals. He interviewed for the offensive coordinator job in Tampa this offseason before the Bucs hired Zac Robinson and interviewed for the same job with the Bears last year.
Schefter reports that the Cardinals also blocked him from pursuing other lateral moves, but the head coaching change in Arizona opened the door for this move. Woolfork will now be working with Lamar Jackson as the Ravens try to make it back to the playoffs after falling short of the postseason this year.
The Ravens will not retain quarterbacks coach Tee Martin, Jordan Schultz of The Schultz Report reports.
Martin spent the past five seasons in Baltimore, the past three as Lamar Jackson’s quarterbacks coach. He joined the team the year after new head coach Jesse Minter left the Ravens.
Minter hired Declan Doyle as his offensive coordinator, and former Bills assistant Ronald Curry has interviewed for Martin’s job.
Martin was the Ravens’ wide receivers coach for his first two seasons before a promotion to the quarterbacks room.
He coached in the college ranks for 15 seasons before joining the Ravens.
The Ravens are set to make another addition to their offensive coaching staff.
Jeff Zrebiec of TheAthletic.com reports that they will hire former Broncos offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi as a senior offensive assistant.
Lombardi was fired by the Broncos after their loss to the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game. He joined Sean Payton in Denver ahead of the 2023 season and worked with new Ravens offensive coordinator Declan Doyle when Doyle was the Broncos’ tight ends coach in 2023 and 2024.
Lombardi also spent many years on Payton’s staff with the Saints earlier in his career and had stints as the offensive coordinator of the Lions and the Chargers.
One offensive assistant coach is headed to a different AFC North squad.
Via Tom Pelissero of NFL Media, Eddie Faulkner is set to become Baltimore’s running backs coach.
Faulkner, 48, had been with the Steelers as running backs coach since 2019. He also served as the club’s interim offensive coordinator in 2023 after Matt Canada was fired midway through the season.
While the Ravens will be Faulkner’s second stop in the pros as a coach, he’s also spent time as an offensive assistant at the college level with Ball State, Northern Illinois, Pitt, Wisconsin, and NC State.
Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald doesn’t think he’d be a head coach in a Super Bowl if not for John Harbaugh.
Macdonald spent a decade as an assistant to Harbaugh in Baltimore, and he said that it was Harbaugh who shaped him into the head coach he is today.
“I don’t think it’s possible to overstate his influence on me,” Macdonald said. “I love John Harbaugh. He’s one of my biggest mentors. He was willing to take chances on me when other people weren’t and invested in me throughout my career. He had a vision for me and my career that I probably didn’t have for myself. All the principles that are part of his program, that he’s about as a person, resonated with me. Those are a lot of the foundational principles that we brought to Seattle. He’s also a great friend, got a great family, I can’t say how much I love him.”
Macdonald was 26 years old when Harbaugh hired him, and 12 years later he’s one of the best head coaches in the NFL. Harbaugh had a lot to do with that.
