Year with Browns: 2nd

Year as NFL coach: 8th

Key Notes

• Spent the past 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.

Year with Browns: 2nd

Year as NFL coach: 8th

Key Notes

• Spent the past 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 receiver 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.
• Served as a football operations intern with the Browns in 2013, while assisting with the offensive coaching staff.
• 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, live with their dog, Midge, in Avon Lake.

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-              Cleveland Browns, tight ends coach