· Named quarterbacks coach in 2022 following two seasons as tight ends coach. Rejoined the Browns staff in 2020 after serving as a football operations intern, while assisting with the offensive coaching staff in 2013.
· In first season with the Browns, helped three tight ends record multiple touchdowns. Austin Hooper finished tied for second on the team with four receiving scores. Developed fourth-round pick Harrison Bryant, who led all NFL rookie TEs with three receiving touchdowns, while David Njoku added two receiving scores. The unit also helped the Browns finish third in the league in rushing with an average of 148.4 yards per game (the team's best since 1978).
· In 2021, the Browns were the only team to have three tight ends record at least three receiving touchdowns as Njoku led the team in touchdown catches. The unit's blocking helped the Browns lead the NFL in rushing average with a 5.09 mark, the highest average by a Browns team since 1966.
· Spent six seasons (2014-19) in Minnesota in a variety of roles, most recently as wide receivers coach.
· In 2019, WR Stefon Diggs set a career high with 1,130 receiving yards, giving him back-to-back 1,000-receiving yard seasons for the first time in his career. Diggs finished fourth in the NFL with an average of 17.9 yards per reception in 2019.
· Assisted with the Vikings quarterbacks while Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski served as quarterbacks coach from 2017-18. In 2018, Kirk Cousins set a team record for completions (425), threw for the second-most passing yards (4,298), compiled the second-highest completion percentage (70.1 percent) and recorded the fourth-highest passer rating (99.7) by a Viking in a single season.
· Spent six seasons (2014-19) on the same coaching staff with Stefanski in Minnesota.
· While an assistant wide receivers coach, helped WR Adam Thielen grow from an undrafted free agent to multiple Pro Bowls. In 2017, Thielen ranked fifth in the NFL with a career-high 1,276 receiving yards.
· Spent six years coaching on the college level at Middlebury (2007-08), Harvard (2009), Boston College (2010-11) and Yale (2012).
· Graduated from Middlebury in 2009 with a degree in economics and minors in math and philosophy.
· Petzing and his wife, Louisa, had a daughter, Emilia Jean, in 2020.
Drew Petzing's Coaching Background:
2007-08 Middlebury College, volunteer student assistant
2009 Harvard University, volunteer assistant
2010-11 Boston College, graduate assistant
2012 Yale University, outside linebackers coach
2013 Cleveland Browns, football operations intern
2014-18 Minnesota Vikings, assistant wide receivers/quarterbacks coach
2019 Minnesota Vikings, wide receivers coach
2020-21 Cleveland Browns, tight ends coach
2022- Cleveland Browns, quarterbacks coach
