Former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive assistant Matt Baker is heading to Cleveland to join Todd Monken and his staff. A former NFL quarterback. Baker was with the Steelers for two seasons, primarily focused on the quarterbacks under Arthur Smith.
However, Smith departed the organization after Mike Tomlin stepped down. Smith took the Ohio State offensive coordinator job this offseason, but did not bring Baker with him.
In his career, Baker has coached at the NFL level since 2023. Smith plucked him from Division-III John Carroll and made him a special teams assistant. With the Browns, he will assume the title of assistant quarterbacks coach.
Baker started his coaching career in 2019 as an analyst focused on quarterbacks before he took the offensive coordinator job at John Carroll.
An undrafted free agent out of North Carolina in 2006, Baker had a career that spanned multiple teams over the four seasons he was in the NFL.
Baker played for the Texans, Cowboys, Saints, Cardinals. Bills, and Dolphins. Mike McCarthy is continuing to build his staff out, and has retained only a few of the coaches from Tomlin’s last staff, with the entire offensive side of the ball turning over.
Baker is the latest assistant to head elsewhere for another opportunity after the end of the season.