The Denver Broncos have filled their offensive coordinator position by promoting quarterbacks coach and pass game coordinator Davis Webb into the role, the team announced on X Monday. Webb replaces Joe Lombardi, who was fired two days after the Broncos’ 10-7 loss to the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship Game.
It was a critical signing for the Broncos that came as Webb drew interest for more than a half-dozen head coach and coordinator jobs around the league during this cycle.
The team also promoted offensive assistant Logan Kilgore into Webb’s former role as QBs coach.
Webb, 31, becomes an offensive coordinator for the first time and will continue to work with quarterback Bo Nix, who will be entering his third season and returning from an ankle fracture that knocked him out of the playoffs. It is not immediately clear whether Broncos coach Sean Payton, who has been the team’s play-caller since arriving in 2023, will pass those duties to Webb, but the new offensive coordinator figures to have significant say as to how the Broncos tweak their scheme this offseason.
Webb officially became an NFL assistant in 2023, when he was hired as Payton’s quarterbacks coach in Denver, just months after starting a game at the position for the New York Giants. Unofficially, he had been fulfilling that role for years.
During his senior year as quarterback at Cal, Webb helped offensive coordinator Jake Spavital construct the game plan each week.
“He wasn’t just throwing ideas out there,” Spavital said in a conversation with The Athletic in 2023. “You went through the first couple months with him, and you start to understand that if he throws an idea out there, he has thoroughly thought it through. He has studied it and has worked through the ins and outs of it. I really enjoyed coaching him and being around him because of the pride he took in it.”
The same pride translated to his time as an NFL player. Webb played in only two regular-season games in his six seasons as a backup quarterback, but his behind-the-scenes impact was substantial. During his stint with the Buffalo Bills, he would throw himself in as a scout-team safety during practice to help give quarterback Josh Allen the right looks. When former Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll was hired as the head coach of the Giants in early 2022, he immediately signed Webb to a futures contract. That allowed Webb to help Giants players — and even some of the team’s new assistants — strengthen their grasp of the new offense as Daball installed it.
“He’d throw with some of those Giants guys and would literally teach them the playbook and the splits and the stems and route concepts and the depths of things and what windows they should be in and why and when,” Tony Racioppi, Webb’s former throwing coach, told The Athletic when Webb was hired by the Broncos. “Davis has been doing this for a long time. Now, he just has a title and is getting paid to do it, but he’s been doing this forever. … I’ve learned stuff from him every time we throw, just by what he tells other guys.”
Webb is a skilled organizer. When he interviewed with Payton for the assistant job with the Broncos three years ago, he connected his computer to a screen in the coach’s office and pulled up a file that contained every game dating back to his time as a high school quarterback in Texas, through college stops at Texas Tech and Cal, and then in the NFL with the Giants and Bills. Plays were categorized in a way that helped Webb quickly reference various scenarios he was in and how he handled them as a quarterback.
“It was impressive,” Payton said.
The interview ended, and Webb left the building. As Payton reflected on the meeting, he asked himself, “Why are we letting him leave? I know better.” Payton reached Webb just as a driver was taking him to the airport. The car turned around, and Payton hired a coach who only months earlier was starting at quarterback for the Giants in the 2022 regular-season finale.
Webb spent his first season coaching Russell Wilson, a veteran quarterback who is 6 years his senior. Wilson and Payton ultimately didn’t mesh, but Wilson’s numbers improved over his forgettable 2022 performance in Denver. Then, in 2024, the Broncos drafted Nix in the first round. Webb immediately flew out to Alabama to help escort the rookie quarterback and his family to Denver for the first time, and he has been at Nix’s hip as the quarterback tied an NFL record with 24 victories across his first two seasons. In his first preseason, Nix outlined how Webb had helped him tackle the steep NFL learning curve by creating a muscle memory that helped avoid mistakes.
“We had a whole drill that Davis set up just because of the play that I messed up,” Nix said. “But that’s good because that means you won’t mess it up again. That’s one where every time it’s called from here on out, I will always think about that one time I messed it up. You are always analyzing and reviewing the film to see different things that you don’t see on the field.”
Webb has never called plays in the NFL outside of one preseason game with the Broncos this past August. He has never been an offensive coordinator. Still, the quarterbacks he has worked with understand why he’s already been targeted to lead a franchise.
“It’s a unique combination of experience from a player standpoint as well as a football IQ and understanding of the game,” said Sam Ehlinger, who spent the 2025 season with Webb in Denver’s quarterbacks room. “You see some of these young play-callers in this league get opportunities and become head coaches because they’re that good at calling plays. Davis is a little bit unique, obviously, because he hasn’t called plays for a regular-season game, but the way he can speak football, the room he’s created here the last few years, and Bo’s development, people see the way he’s taught him the NFL game, and Bo’s had success early in his career. It’s a unique combination of someone who played and was held in high regard by multiple coaching staffs. He’s just a really smart football coach.”
Nix, whose 24 victories in his first two seasons are tied for the most of an NFL quarterback through that stage in his career, has credited Webb with helping him handle the NFL learning curve.
“He understands the world of teaching,” Nix said. “He really knows how to communicate with his players and with me. He’s told me in two years how to consolidate and keep things simple, keep the main thing the main thing. He’s taken a lot of information and a lot of knowledge and been able to just roll right into it. I think highly of him.”
Webb garnered interest from the Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Ravens and Las Vegas Raiders for their head coach positions and was also sought after for several coordinator openings. The interest in Webb as a future head coach probably isn’t going away any time soon. For now, though, the Broncos have retained a key member of their staff and have put him in a position that should allow him to make a bigger imprint on an offense that must improve in 2026 in order for the Broncos to accomplish their championship goals.