Head coach Todd Monken has finalized his coaching staff for the 2026 season, building out his staff and bringing in new coordinators to lead the offensive, defensive and special teams units.
As Monken cultivated the coaches that will surround him and work directly with the players, he focused on the importance of development and creating a staff that can foster development of young players and execute the game plan.
"We're in the development business," Monken said. "Nobody has a ready-made roster. And whether that's developing a good player into a great player, or a solid player into a good player, or developing the back end of your roster – the guys are going to help you as you move forward – that's the first part in the development business with our players. And then with that being said, you're always looking for those that, the closer you are to an elite staff, the more you have guys that are not only developers but are also schemers. You either got to be an elite developer or an elite schemer. And the more guys you do that you have that are elite at developing and scheme, the better you're going to be."
Here are the 29 members of the coaching staff that will help lead the Browns beginning with the 2026 season.
Head Coach: Todd Monken
Chief of Staff: John Carr
Carr joins the Browns as the chief of staff and brings over 20 years of experience at the prep, junior college and collegiate levels. He most recently was the head coach at Starkville High School for the 2025 season after one season as the head coach at Clinton High School in 2024. Carr previously crossed paths with head coach Todd Monken at Southern Mississippi where he served as the director of football operations from 2013-15 and managed team travel, event operations, fundraising projects, clinics and camps.
Offense
Offensive Coordinator Travis Switzer
Pass Game Coordinator: Danny Breyer
Breyer is the Browns pass game coordinator following three seasons with the Ravens. He spent 2023-25 as an offensive assistant coach with the Ravens, working closely with the tight ends. During that span, the Ravens finished near the top in several key categories including rushing yards (first with 166.9 per game), yards per game (second with 375.6 per game) and points (third with 27.9 per game). In 2024, TE Mark Andrew led all NFL tight ends with 11 receiving touchdowns. He previously spent three seasons with the Atlanta Falcons, first as offensive assistant (2020-21) and as run game specialist (2022). In 2022, RB Tyler Allgier rushed for 1,035 yards, while Cordarrelle Patterson added eight rushing touchdowns. Breyer has coached for 10 years in the NFL.
Run Game Coordinator/Tight Ends Coach: Jeff Blasko
Blasko re-joins the Browns as the run game coordinator/tight ends coach after serving as the tight ends coach for the Jets during the 2025 season. He previously spent five seasons with the Cowboys, where he served as the assistant offensive line coach from 2020-22 before being promoted to run game coordinator/running backs coach for the 2023-24 seasons. Blasko has previous ties to working with Monken in Cleveland, when he was the assistant offensive line coach for the Browns while Monken was the offensive coordinator in 2019.
Offensive Line Coach: George Warhop
Warhop returns to the Browns as the offensive line coach and is in his 30th year coaching in the NFL. He previously served as the offensive line coach for the Browns from 2009-13. Warhop overlapped with Monken at two stops over his coaching career, first with the Buccaneers from 2016-18 and then with the Ravens from 2024-25. Over the course of his coaching career, Warhop has worked with some of the top offensive linemen in NFL history including T Joe Thomas, T Orlando Pace, G Larry Allen, T Lomas Brown, G Logan Mankins, C Alex Mack, T Flozell Adams, T Joe Staley and T Laremy Tunsil.
Assistant Offensive Line Coach: Bobby Johnson
Johnson joins the Browns as the assistant offensive line coach after spending two seasons with the Commanders as the offensive line coach. In 2024, the offensive line helped guide the offense to rush for 2,619 yards and 154.1 yards per game, which ranked third in the league. Johnson brings 29 years of coaching experience, including 16 years in the NFL.
Quarterbacks Coach: Mike Bajakian
Bajakian joins the Browns as the quarterbacks coach and brings 30 years of coaching experience. He spent the past seven seasons as an offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach on the collegiate level with Massachusetts (2025), Utah (2024), Northwestern (2020-23) and Boston College (2019). He was also the quarterbacks coach with Tampa Bay for four seasons from 2015-18.
Assistant Quarterbacks Coach: Matt Baker
Baker joins the Browns as the assistant quarterbacks coach after spending two seasons with the Steelers as an offensive assistant from 2024-25. His first NFL coaching position came with the Falcons as a special teams assistant in 2023. Prior to joining the Falcons, Baker spent three seasons at John Carroll University from 2020-22 as the quarterbacks coach before adding offensive coordinator to his title in 2022.
Wide Receivers Coach: Christian Jones
Jones moved to wide receivers after serving as the tight ends coach for the Browns during the 2025 season. In his first season with the Browns as tight ends coach, helped TE Harold Fannin Jr. set a Browns rookie record with 72 receptions. Fannin finished second among all NFL rookies in receptions, tied for second with six receiving touchdowns and fourth with 731 receiving yards in 2025. Jones is in his eighth year as a coach in the NFL, after spending three years at the Vikings from 2019-21 and three years at the Giants from 2022-24.
Assistant Wide Receivers Coach: John Wozniak
Wozniak steps into the NFL for the first time in his coaching career as the Browns assistant wide receivers coach. Wozniak brings over 25 years of coaching experience at different collegiate programs. He most recently served as an offensive analyst at Arizona State during the 2025 season after spending eight years as the running backs coach at Oklahoma State from 2017-24.
Running Backs Coach: Duce Staley
Staley first joined the Browns in 2024 and brings 27 years of experience as an NFL player (10) and coach (17), where he has won a Super Bowl as both a player and a coach. He helped develop rookie RBs Quinshon Judkins (second round pick) and Dylan Sampson (fourth round pick) in 2025. Judkins led the team with 827 rushing yards and seven rushing scores. Judkins also finished third among all NFL rookies in rushing yards and tied for fourth in rushing touchdowns. In 2024, RBs Nick Chubb and Jerome Ford tied for the team lead in rushing touchdowns.
Offensive Quality Control Coach: Ian Kolste
Kolste joins the Browns as an offensive quality control coach after spending the previous two seasons with the Ravens as a coaching fellow where he overlapped with Monken. Kolste also spent six years at the collegiate level in various roles, most recently as the offensive coordinator for his alma mater Whitworth University from 2022-23.
Offensive Assistant/Offensive Line Coach: Sanders Davis
Davis enters his second season with the Browns as an offensive assistant/offensive line coach, first joining the coaching staff in 2025. Davis previously spent six seasons at Rice University, first as a graduate assistant in 2019 before serving as offensive line coach the final five seasons from 2020-24.
Offensive Analyst: Travis Monken
Monken joins the Browns as an offensive analyst after spending two seasons with Purdue University working as an offensive quality control coach. Prior to the joining the Boilermakers, Monken served as a student assistant with Oklahoma State from 2020-23, primarily working with the tight ends and fullbacks.
Offensive Analyst: Dom Borsani
Borsani is in his fourth season with the Cleveland Browns and his first as an offensive analyst. In his role, Borsani works closely with the offensive coaching staff and contributes to daily coaching tasks and research. He originally joined the front office as a football research analyst in 2023 before serving as a coaching analyst in 2024.
Defense
Defensive Coordinator Mike Rutenberg
Run Game Coordinator/ Linebackers Coach: Jason Tarver
Tarver first joined the Browns in 2020 as the linebackers coach, a position he has held for six seasons, before adding run game coordinator responsibilities in 2026. Tarver is in his 23rd season as an NFL coach, which includes 13 seasons with the 49ers and three seasons as the defensive coordinator for the Raiders. In 2020, Tarver helped the defense rank among the league leaders in takeaways, including an NFL-best six red zone takeaways, as well as ranking ninth in the league in run defense after finishing 30th in 2019. In 2021, he helped the Browns finish the 2021 season fifth in the NFL in total defense, marking the club's highest finish since 1987. Most recently, he coached a room that features LB Carson Schwesinger, who was named the AP Defensive Rookie of the Year for the 2025 season. Schwesinger led all rookies with 146 tackles and 11 tackles for loss.
Pass Game Coordinator: Ephraim Banda
Banda first joined the Browns as the safeties coach in 2023 following 11 years coaching on the college level. He has now been promoted to pass game coordinator to start 2026. In 2023, the Browns' defense led the NFL in several categories including total defense (270.2 yards per game), passing defense (164.7 yards per game), third down percentage (67-of-230 for 29.1 percent) and first downs allowed (253). In 2024, S Grant Delpit led the team with a career-high 108 tackles. In 2025, the Browns extended their streak to 45 straight games without allowing a 300-yard passer, the longest active streak in the NFL. The Browns also finished third in the NFL in pass defense allowing just 167.2 yards per game and fourth in total defense (283.6 yards per game) in 2025. S Ronnie Hickman set career-highs with 100 tackles, two interceptions and seven passes defensed.
Defensive Line Coach: Jacques Cesaire
Cesaire joined the Browns in 2024 and is in his seventh year as an NFL coach. In first season with Browns, DE Myles Garrett led the NFL with 22 tackles for loss and finished second in the league with 14 sacks. Garrett was voted Associated Press first-team All-Pro and to the Pro Bowl. Garrett then made NFL history in 2025 as he broke the NFL single-season sack record with 23 sacks and added a career-high 33 tackles for loss.
Assistant Defensive Line Coach: Ralph Street
Street joins the Browns as an assistant defensive line coach after spending five seasons as the defensive line coach and run game coordinator at Marshall University. From 2023-24, Street coached DE Mike Green, the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year who led FBS in with 17 sacks, 22.5 tackles for loss, sack yardage (144) and tackles for loss yardage (155) and was drafted in the second round of the 2025 NFL Draft. Street spent nine years coaching at the collegiate level.
Defensive Backs Coach/Pass Game Specialist: Brandon Lynch
Lynch first joined the Browns in 2020 as the assistant defensive backs coach before moving to cornerbacks coach in 2023. He is now the defensive backs coach/pass game specialist beginning in 2026. He is in his seventh year as an NFL coach. Lynch coaches a room that features CB Denzel Ward, who is a five-time Pro Bowl and has 104 career passes defensed – the most by any NFL player since 2018. Ward is also just one of five active players with at least 100 career passes defensed.
Senior Defensive Assistant: Dom Capers
Capers joins the Browns as a senior defensive assistant, with this season marking Capers' 39th season coaching in the NFL with a total of 12 teams. He has served as a head coach or defensive coordinator for 25 seasons and has coached over 30 different players to 14 All-Pro teams and 49 Pro Bowl selections. He spent nine seasons as an NFL head coach, first with Carolina from 1995-98 and then with Houston from 2001-05, serving as the first-ever head coach for both franchises. He has coordinated defenses for Green Bay from 2009-17, Miami in 2006, Jacksonville from 1999-2000 and Pittsburgh from 1995-98. He has also spent 11 years coaching at the collegiate level.
Defensive Assistant/Nickelbacks Coach: Jeff Anderson
Anderson joined the Browns in 2022 as a defensive quality control coach after spending eight seasons at the collegiate level prior to joining the Browns. He was promoted to defensive assistant/nickelbacks coach in 2026. He first joined the Browns as a Bill Walsh NFL Diversity Coaching Fellow in 2021, an opportunity each NFL team offers to minority coaches during offseason programs.
Defensive Assistant/Assistant Linebackers coach: Zach Dunn
Dunn first joined the Browns in 2020 as a defensive assistant and adds assistant linebackers responsibilities beginning in 2026. During six seasons with the Browns, DE Myles Garrett was named to the Pro Bowl and AP All-Pro team all six seasons and was named the 2023 and 2025 NFL Defensive Player of the Year. He also set the NFL single-season sack record with 23 in 2025. In 2025, Dunn aided with the linebackers, where second-round pick Carson Schwesinger was named the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year.
Defensive Quality Control Coach: Paul Worrilow
Worrilow joins the Browns as a defensive quality control coach. He previously served as a volunteer assistant coach at the University of Delaware from 2022-25 following an eight-year NFL career as a linebacker. During his career, Worrilow appeared in 76 games with 52 starts for the Falcons (2013-16), Lions (2017), Eagles (2018), Ravens (2019) and Jets (2019-20).
Defensive Analyst: Shaq Wilson
Wilson joins the Browns as a defensive analyst and brings three years of experience at the NFL level and over 10 years at the collegiate level. Prior to joining the Browns, Wilson spent two seasons with the New York Jets as a defensive assistant coach working with the defensive line in 2023 and linebackers 2024. A graduate of South Carolina, Wilson returned to his alma mater in 2021 as a defensive analyst after spending the prior three years at Tennessee as an assistant director of football sports performance. During the 2017 preseason, Wilson also served as a scouting intern with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Special Teams
Special Teams Coordinator Byron Storer
Assistant Special Teams Coach: Keith Tandy
Tandy joins the Browns as assistant special teams coach after spending six seasons as a defensive/special teams assistant for the Buccaneers. He was a member of the coaching staff for Tampa Bay's Super Bowl LV championship in his first year with the team in 2020.
