Byron Storer joins the Browns as the special teams coordinator after spending four seasons with the Packers as the assistant special teams coach and has coached for 12 years in the NFL.
"First off, his journey – going to Cal, playing special teams little bit in the NFL, into coaching, out of coaching and into the business world, then back into coaching. Being with one of the best special teams to ever do it in Rich Bisaccia. Matt LaFleur just absolutely standing on the table for him was huge," Monken said. "Unbelievable presentation when we interviewed him, he was more than ready. It was obvious when I got done interviewing him that we had to have him here."
From 2022-24, Storer helped the Packers post their best three-year mark on kickoff returns in team history with an average of 26.0 yards. Green Bay also tied for the league lead with 28 kickoff returns of 30-plus yards from 2022-24, the most by the team over a three-season span since 2010-12 (28). Storer also helped guide Green Bay to a No. 6 league ranking over the past three seasons in field-position margin (plus-1.8), including top 10 finishes each of the past two seasons (plus-2.7 in 2024, No. 5; plus-2.1 in 2023, No. 8).
He previously spent four seasons with the Raiders from 2018-21 as the assistant special teams coach. In 2021, P AJ Cole led the league with an average of 50.0 yards per punt and ranked fifth in the NFL with a net average of 42.5 yards on his way to earning first-team All-Pro recognition and his first Pro Bowl selection. K Daniel Carlson also set a single-season franchise record with 150 points, including a team-record 40 field goals. In 2020, WR Hunter Renfrow ranked second in the league with an average of 11.5 yards per punt return. Then in 2019, WR Dwayne Harris ranked second in the league with a 14.1-yard average on punt returns, highlighted by a franchise-record 99-yard touchdown return vs. Denver in Week 16.
From 2014-17, Storer stepped away from the coaching profession to help start a new branch of his family's transportation business, Storer San Francisco. He advanced to general manager, operating commuter shuttle transportation for some of the largest tech companies in the world.
Storer first broke into the NFL when he was an assistant special teams coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for two seasons from 2010-11. Storer helped Tampa Bay rank tied for 17th in field goal percentage in 2010 (82.1, 23 of 28) and then second in the league in 2011 (92.9, 26 of 28). The Buccaneers ranked fourth in the NFL in field goal percentage at 87.5 percent in Storer's two seasons assisting with the special teams.
He also worked for the San Diego Chargers for two seasons from 2012-13, first serving as a special teams assistant in 2012 before becoming the assistant linebackers coach in 2013. In 2012, Storer helped San Diego rank No. 3 in the NFL in average opponent starting field position after kickoffs (20.4) after the Chargers ranked No. 26 in the category in 2011 (22.8). The Chargers also ranked No. 3 in the league in FG percentage (92.6, 25 of 27) after checking in at tied for No. 20 (80.0, 28 of 35) in 2011.
Storer played three seasons in the NFL with the Buccaneers from 2007-09 as a fullback, appearing in 25 games and recording 11 special teams tackles before sustaining a career-ending injury.
