To say the Cleveland Browns‘ special teams haven’t been great the past couple of seasons would be a bit of an understatement. So it came as no surprise when the team let Bubba Ventrone take a job elsewhere and let new head coach Todd Monken pick his own guy to run the special teams in Cleveland.
Monken settled on Green Bay Packers assistant special teams coach Byron Storer as Ventrone’s replacement with the Browns. In an article on Clevelandbrowns.com, this is what Monken said about why Storer made sense for him.
“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. 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.”
This article originally appeared on Browns Wire: Browns HC Todd Monken cites journey when hiring Byron Storer