Ravens Announce 2026 Coaching Staff

New Ravens Head Coach Jesse Minter finalized his coaching staff on Thursday.

Here is the full staff:

Harland Bower – Outside Linebackers Coach

Bower enters his first season as an NFL coach, after spending 16 years (2010-25) in the collegiate ranks. For the past four seasons (2022-25), he served as the defensive ends coach at Duke, where in 2025, he mentored a pair of All-ACC honorees in DE Vincent Anthony Jr. and DE Wesley Williams.

Marcus Brady – Pass Game Coordinator

Brady enters his ninth season as an NFL coach, last serving as the Los Angeles Chargers' passing game coordinator from 2024-25. Prior to his time in L.A., he was with the Philadelphia Eagles for two seasons (2022-23) in offensive consultant roles. While with the Indianapolis Colts, he served as offensive coordinator his final two seasons (2021-22), in addition to coaching quarterbacks from 2018-20. Brady also coached in the CFL for nine seasons (2009-17), following a seven-year playing career at quarterback in the Canadian league.

Randy Brown – Senior Special Teams Coach

Brown enters his 19th season on the Ravens' coaching staff, after originally joining Baltimore in 2008 as a kicking consultant. Throughout his Ravens tenure, he has helped coach seven Pro Bowlers, including 2025 first-team All-Pro P Jordan Stout, who ranked No. 1 in the NFL in net (44.9) and No. 3 in gross (5.1) punting average this past season. Brown also aided in the development of rookie K Tyler Loop, who recorded a franchise-rookie-record 134 points in 2025 by connecting on 30-of-34 field goal attempts (88.2%) and 44-of-46 point after attempts (95.7%).

Keary Colbert – Wide Receivers Coach

Entering his fourth NFL coaching season, Colbert spent the past three years (2023-25) guiding the Denver Broncos' wide receivers. Prior to entering the NFL, he held a variety of offensive coaching positions at Florida (2022), his alma mater USC (2010, 2016-21), Alabama (2014-15) and Georgia State (2013). Originally selected by the Carolina Panthers in the second round of the 2004 NFL Draft, Colbert played six NFL seasons with the Panthers (2004-07), Broncos (2008), Seattle Seahawks (2008), Detroit Lions (2008) and Kansas City Chiefs (2011).

Christina DeRuyter – Chief of Staff to the Head Coach

DeRuyter spent the past two seasons (2024-25) serving as the Los Angeles Chargers' director of football logistics. Prior to her time in the NFL, she worked collegiately in operations and recruiting at Michigan (2021-23), Vanderbilt (2021), Texas Tech (2019-21) and Arizona (2018). A Texas A&M graduate, she also worked for the Aggies' football operations and broadcast departments as a student.

Declan Doyle – Offensive Coordinator

Doyle enters his eighth NFL coaching season and his second as an offensive coordinator (2025 – Chicago Bears). While with Chicago last season, he helped the offense rank sixth in total yards (369.5 ypg), producing the league's No. 3 rushing (144.5 ypg) and No. 10 passing (225.1 ypg) attacks. Prior to his time with the Bears, Doyle served as the Denver Broncos' tight ends coach (2023-24) and as an offensive assistant for the New Orleans Saints (2019-22). His first coaching opportunity came as an offensive assistant at the University of Iowa (2016-18).

Lou Esposito – Defensive Line Coach

A 25-year coaching veteran, Esposito enters his first NFL season after last working at Michigan, where he spent the past two seasons (2024-25) coaching the defensive line. Prior to Michigan, Esposito served seven seasons (2017-23) as Western Michigan's defensive coordinator and defensive line/defensive ends coach. From 2014-16, he was the inaugural head coach at Davenport University, building the startup program and recruiting more than 125 student-athletes in its first two years. Esposito also held assistant-coaching roles at Ferris State (2013), Western Michigan (2010-12), Saint Joseph's (Ind.) College (2004) and with the AFL's Memphis XPlorers (2002-03). His first head-coaching role came at Saint Joseph's (Ind.) College, where he led the program from 2005-09.

Eddie Faulkner – Running Backs Coach

Faulkner enters his eighth NFL season and first with the Ravens after spending the previous seven years (2019-25) coaching the Pittsburgh Steelers' running backs. In 2025, he helped guide Pittsburgh's one-two punch of Jaylen Warren and Kenneth Gainwell, who combined for nearly 1,500 rushing yards and 11 rushing touchdowns, along with 113 receptions and five receiving scores. Faulker was also instrumental in the development of RB Najee Harris, who rushed for over 1,000 yards in each of his four seasons with Pittsburgh (2021-24) and earned Pro Bowl honors as a rookie in 2021. Prior to his time in Pittsburgh, Faulker served as an assistant coach at North Carolina State (2013-18), Wisconsin (2012), Northern Illinois (2011), Ball State (2003-10) and Anderson University (2002). At Ball State, he spent two seasons (2009-10) as the team's offensive coordinator and running backs coach, including a stint as the program's interim head coach at the end of the 2010 campaign.

Shawn Flaherty – Assistant Offensive Line Coach

Flaherty joins the Ravens as the assistant offensive line coach after previously serving in the same capacity with the Atlanta Falcons (2023-25). He originally joined the Falcons as a football analyst in 2022. His first NFL coaching experience was with the Miami Dolphins, where he was a coaching assistant (2019-20) before being promoted to assistant offensive line coach in 2021. He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at North Carolina State (2017-18). Flaherty played collegiately at Towson University (2013-16), starting games at both guard and center while earning a degree in business administration.

Charlie Gelman – Game Management Coordinator/Defensive Assistant

Gelman rejoins the Ravens after spending the past three seasons (2023-25) with the title of football analyst/game management for the Indianapolis Colts. He gained his first NFL experience with the Ravens, serving in a variety of roles, including football analyst (2022), coaching research intern (2021) and scouting analytics intern (2019 training camp). Before entering the NFL, Gelman spent four seasons (2018-21) as a student assistant coach at Duke, while also working as an advanced statistics analyst for the wrestling team (2017-21).

Prentice Gill – Assistant Wide Receivers Coach

Gill enters his first season as assistant wide receivers coach after being elevated from his previous role as a Ravens' coaching fellow, which he held for the past two years (2024-25). Prior to his NFL career, Gill spent one season (2024) at IMG Academy, following four seasons (2020-23) as co-wide receivers coach/assistant recruiting coordinator at Arizona State, and one season as an offensive analyst at Oregon (2019). He previously held graduate assistant roles at USC (2016-18) – where he worked with new Ravens wide receivers coach Keary Colbert – and at San Jose State (2015), where he assisted the defensive backs.

Zack Grossi – Tight Ends Coach

Grossi (pronounced: GRAH-see) enters his eighth NFL season overall, most recently serving as the Denver Broncos' pass game specialist from 2024-25. Grossi, who was Denver's offensive quality control coach from 2022-23, spent two years coaching alongside Ravens offensive coordinator Declan Doyle and three years with Joe Lombardi, the team's new senior offensive assistant coach. He previously spent time with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' coaching staff (2016-18), while also coaching on the collegiate level at Southern University and A&M College (2020-21) and Hampton University (2019).

Ben Kotwica – Senior Assistant Special Teams Coach

Kotwica (pronounced: cot-WEE-kuh) enters his 19th NFL season after spending 2025 as the Los Angeles Rams' assistant special teams coordinator. (He was elevated to interim special teams coordinator following Week 16.) Prior to the Rams, Kotwica served as the special teams coordinator for the Denver Broncos (2023-24), assistant special teams coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings (2022) and special teams coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons (2019-20), Washington Commanders (2014-18) and New York Jets (2013). He originally joined the NFL coaching ranks with the Jets in a defensive/special teams quality control role (2007-08) and as assistant special teams coach (2009-12). He is a decorated officer who spent eight years in the Army after graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Kotwica played linebacker for Army from 1993-96, and his first coaching experience began nine years following his playing career, when he served as defensive coordinator at the U.S. Military Prep Academy at West Point from 2005-06. In 2021, he returned to Army for one season where he served as the director of player development.

Patrick Kramer – Offensive Quality Control Coach

Kramer enters his sixth NFL season overall, after serving five years as the Atlanta Falcons' offensive assistant coach (2023-25) and football analyst (2021-22). Kramer worked alongside new Ravens offensive line coach & run game coordinator Dwayne Ledford and assistant offensive line coach Shawn Flaherty in Atlanta. A former quarterback at John Carroll University, Kramer also spent time coaching at Tennessee-Chattanooga (2017) and Notre Dame (2018-20), after beginning his coaching career at alma mater John Carroll (2016).

Dwayne Ledford – Offensive Line Coach & Run Game Coordinator

Entering his 22nd season overall as a coach, Ledford spent the past five years guiding the Atlanta Falcons' offensive line (2021-25), adding run game coordinator to his role during the 2024-25 campaigns. He also coached collegiately for 14 years at seven different schools, after retiring from the NFL following a six-year playing career as a center with four organizations (49ers, Jaguars, Panthers & Browns).

Anthony Levine Sr. – Special Teams Coordinator

Levine Sr. enters his third season as a Ravens special teams coach and first as the special teams coordinator. Following his retirement from playing in the NFL, including 10 seasons as a special teams standout in Baltimore (2012-21), Levine Sr. first joined the league's coaching ranks as a Ravens player personnel/coaching assistant (2022), spent two years as the Titans' assistant special teams coach (2023-24) and then returned to Baltimore in the same role (2025).

Joe Lombardi – Senior Offensive Assistant Coach

Entering his 21st NFL coaching season, Lombardi has experience as an offensive coordinator with three NFL franchises (Detroit Lions, Los Angeles Chargers & Denver Broncos). He most recently served as Denver's O.C. from 2023-25, following two seasons (2021-22) in the same position with the Chargers. Throughout his career, Lombardi has worked closely with and mentored some of the league's top quarterbacks, including Pro Football Hall of Famer Drew Brees, Pro Bowler Justin Herbert and Bo Nix, who passed for a career-high 3,931 yards and 25 touchdowns in 2025, helping Denver clinch the AFC's No. 1 playoff seed. Lombardi is the grandson of legendary NFL coach Vince Lombardi.

Mike Mickens – Pass Game Coordinator & Secondary

Mickens enters his first NFL coaching season, bringing 15 years of experience at the collegiate level. He most recently worked with cornerbacks at Notre Dame (2020-25), also serving as the defensive passing game coordinator from 2023-25. Additionally, he held assistant roles at Cincinnati (2018-19), Bowling Green (2014-17), Idaho (2013), Indiana State (2012) and his alma mater Cincinnati (2011). Mickens reunites with head coach Jesse Minter, after they previously coached on the same defensive staff at Indiana State in 2012. Mickens also played cornerback at Cincinnati, where he was coached by Minter (graduate assistant) from 2007-08.

Rick Minter – Football Analyst

Minter enters his ninth season on a coaching staff with his son, Jesse Minter. The elder Minter most recently served as a senior defensive analyst for the Los Angeles Chargers (2024-25) and worked on Michigan's defensive staff from 2022-23. He has over 40 years of coaching experience at both the collegiate and professional ranks, including serving as the University of Cincinnati's head coach from 1994-2003.

Andrew Rogan – Defensive Quality Control Coach

Rogan is in his sixth season with the Ravens and first as the team's defensive quality control coach. Originally joining the Ravens in 2021 as a player personnel assistant, he has provided organizational value from both a player personnel and coaching perspective. Prior to his time in Baltimore, Rogan served as a coaching/personnel/analytics intern for Army Football (2020).

Tyler Santucci – Inside Linebackers Coach

Santucci is in his second season as Baltimore's inside linebackers coach and owns 15 years of coaching experience at the collegiate level, which includes serving as Georgia Tech's defensive coordinator/linebackers coach in 2024. In his first season (2025) with Baltimore, he helped guide ILB Roquan Smith to his fourth-consecutive Pro Bowl nod, while rookie ILB Teddye Buchanan earned PFWA All-Rookie Team honors and was named October's NFL Defensive Rookie of the Month.

Miles Taylor – Assistant Defensive Backs Coach

Taylor enters his second NFL coaching season after spending 2025 as a coaching fellow with the Los Angeles Chargers. Prior to his Chargers tenure, he spent five seasons (2020-24) as South Dakota's defensive backs coach. Taylor began his coaching career at Iowa (2018-19) as a graduate assistant, following a four-year (2014-17) playing career for the Hawkeyes, where he saw action in 50 games as a safety, producing 169 tackles, one interception and one fumble recovery.

P.J. Volker – Safeties Coach

Volker enters his first NFL coaching season, bringing more than 15 years of collegiate experience to the Ravens. He most recently spent seven seasons (2019-25) guiding the Naval Academy's defense, first serving as linebackers coach and later adding defensive coordinator duties in 2022. Volker made previous coaching stops at Kennesaw State (2017-18), Georgia State (2013-16) and Indiana State (2010-12). He was a two-time All-Conference linebacker at the College of Mount St. Joseph, where he played with Ravens head coach Jesse Minter.

Anthony Weaver – Defensive Coordinator

Weaver enters his 15th NFL coaching season and first as Baltimore's defensive coordinator. After two seasons (2024-25) as the Miami Dolphins' defensive coordinator, he returns to Baltimore for a third time after previously holding defensive coaching roles from 2021-23 and where he began his NFL playing career as a second-round draft pick at defensive end (2002-05). Prior to his time working with Miami, Weaver also coached defensive line units for the Houston Texans (2016-20; serving as D.C. in his final year), Cleveland Browns (2014-15), Buffalo Bills (2013) and New York Jets (2012).

Israel Woolfork – Quarterbacks Coach

Woolfork enters his fifth full NFL coaching season after spending the past three years (2023-25) as the Arizona Cardinals' quarterbacks coach. He originally entered the NFL with the Cleveland Browns (2021-22) via the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship, where he initially worked with Cleveland's tight ends during the offseason. In 2022, he was the Browns' recipient of the Bill Willis Coaching Fellowship, assisting the quarterbacks position. Woolfork's coaching career started at Miami (Ohio), where he enjoyed a nine-year tenure as the RedHawks' wide receivers coach (2018-21), running backs coach (2015-17) and as a graduate assistant (2013-14).

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