Assistant coach Harland Bower is leaving Duke to join the Baltimore Ravens’ coaching staff as outside linebackers coach, according to multiple reports published on Friday.
The Ravens’ official website reported the move as a hire to Jesse Minter’s new staff, citing CBS Sports reporter Matt Zenitz. Bower has coached at Duke since arriving in December 2021 and has worked primarily with the program’s defensive ends.
At Duke, Bower remained on staff through the program’s most recent coaching transition, a continuity that left him among the longer-tenured assistants in Durham. With the Blue Devils since 2022, he was responsible for coaching the defensive ends.
Bower’s move to Baltimore places him on a Ravens staff that has been reshaped in recent weeks following Minter’s hiring as head coach. The Ravens’ report on Bower also noted that last season’s outside linebackers coach, Matt Robinson, left to join John Harbaugh’s new staff in New York, creating the vacancy Bower is expected to fill.
The Ravens’ report also connected Bower to another former Duke coach now in Baltimore, noting Bower overlapped at Texas A&M with Tyler Santucci, who is listed in the story as the Ravens’ inside linebackers coach.
Prior to Duke, Bower’s coaching career included jobs at Texas A&M, South Alabama, Notre Dame, Central Arkansas, Troy, Rutgers, Murray State, and Georgia Military College