Year with Browns: 3rd

Year as NFL coach: 12th

Key Notes

• Made return to Cleveland in 2020 after breaking into the NFL with the Browns in 2009-10.  
• Spent nine seasons (2011-19) with the Dallas Cowboys, most recently as linebackers coach from 2018-19.
• Helped develop 2018 first-round pick LB Leighton Vander Esch, who became the first rookie linebacker in Cowboys history to be selected to the Pro Bowl. Vander Esch led the team with a franchise rookie record 176 tackles.

Year with Browns: 3rd

Year as NFL coach: 12th

Key Notes

• Made return to Cleveland in 2020 after breaking into the NFL with the Browns in 2009-10.  
• Spent nine seasons (2011-19) with the Dallas Cowboys, most recently as linebackers coach from 2018-19.
• Helped develop 2018 first-round pick LB Leighton Vander Esch, who became the first rookie linebacker in Cowboys history to be selected to the Pro Bowl. Vander Esch led the team with a franchise rookie record 176 tackles.
• In 2019, helped LB Jaylon Smith to his first career Pro Bowl after leading Dallas with a career-high 142 tackles.
• Served as assistant coach/special projects from 2016-17, advising the head coach on game plan matchups and schemes, personnel group strategies, film and statistical analysis, game management and situational football strategy.
• Assisting the defensive line in 2015, Bloom helped DeMarcus Lawrence lead the team with eight sacks, while placing second with 31 pressures. Along with Greg Hardy's six sacks, accounted for 14 of the club's 31 sacks.
• While working with the defensive ends in 2014, Jeremy Mincey led the club with six sacks and 39 quarterback pressures.
• Assisting the linebackers in 2012, Bloom helped DeMarcus Ware (11.5) and Anthony Spencer (11) earn Pro Bowl berths with each reaching double-digit sacks.
• Served as defensive quality control coach and team operations assistant during first stint with the Browns (2009-10). During that time, he helped prepare the defense during practice and with the breakdown of film for upcoming opponents.
• Spent four years coaching in the college ranks at Tufts (2005-07) and Harvard (2008).
• Three-year letter winner on the Tufts offensive line, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history in 2005 and master's in education in 2008.
• A native of Wellesley, Mass.
• Bloom and his wife, Eliot, have a daughter, Georgia, and son, Bern.

Ben Bloom's Coaching Background:

2005-07          Tufts University, defensive line/graduate assistant

2008               Harvard University, assistant defensive line coach

2009               Cleveland Browns, team operations assistant/quality control coach

2010               Cleveland Browns, defensive quality control coach

2011-13          Dallas Cowboys, defensive quality control/assistant linebackers

2014-15          Dallas Cowboys, defensive line coach

2016-17          Dallas Cowboys, assistant coach/special projects

2018-19          Dallas Cowboys, linebackers coach

2020-              Cleveland Browns, senior defensive assistant