With the Cleveland Browns hiring Todd Monken and other teams starting to replace coordinators who left for promotions, the Browns will be looking for a new special teams coordinator as well.
The Los Angeles Rams have hired Bubba Ventrone, who spent the last three seasons as the special teams coordinator in Cleveland, to the same role.
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The Browns’ special teams have not been great under Ventrone, who was regarded as one of the better coordinators in the league, which led Cleveland to fire Mike Priefer so they could bring Ventrone in. But it hasn’t worked out that way, and the special teams have continued to get worse, costing the team multiple games during the 2025 season.
The Browns are better off with Ventrone taking another job, and letting Monken pick his own special teams coordinator, and hope it will help them be more productive in 2026. They have a good kicker and punter, but the coverage teams were poorly coached, leading to massive returns, touchdowns allowed, and blocked kicks that really hurt the Browns this past season.
This article originally appeared on Browns Wire: Browns down a coordinator after the hire of Todd Monken