{"id":693564,"date":"2026-01-21T11:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/693564\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:17:14","slug":"todd-monken-interviews-a-2nd-time-for-browns-coaching-job-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/693564\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Monken interviews a 2nd time for Browns’ coaching job"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Todd Monken had his second interview on Tuesday for the Cleveland Browns’ coaching job.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

Monken has been Baltimore’s offensive coordinator for the past three seasons and first interviewed on Jan. 10
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He was the second candidate to get a second interview
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Monken has history with the Browns, serving as offensive coordinator on Freddie Kitchens\u2019 staff in 2019<\/p>\n

Monken has been Baltimore’s offensive coordinator for the past three seasons and first interviewed on Jan. 10. He has also interviewed for Tampa Bay’s offensive coordinator opening.<\/p>\n

He was the second candidate to get a second interview. Browns defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz had his on Monday.<\/p>\n

Monken has history with the Browns, serving as offensive coordinator on Freddie Kitchens\u2019 staff in 2019. He worked at the University of Georgia from 2020-22 and was the offensive coordinator when the Bulldogs won the national title in 2021 and \u201922.<\/p>\n

The Ravens were second in the league this season in rushing yards per game (156.6 yards) and 11th in scoring, averaging 24.9 points per game. Baltimore was the league\u2019s top-ranked offense in 2024, when it became the first team in NFL history to have at least 4,000 passing yards and 3,000 rushing yards in a season.<\/p>\n

Monken also has worked in Jacksonville (2007-10) and Tampa Bay (2016-17). He was the head coach at Southern Mississippi from 2011-13 and had a 13-26 record.<\/p>\n

Cleveland\u00a0fired Kevin Stefanski<\/a>\u00a0on Jan. 5 following six seasons and a 46-58 record. Stefanski \u2014 who was hired as Atlanta’s coach on Saturday \u2014 was a two-time AP NFL Coach of the Year and led the Browns to the playoffs in 2020 and \u201923.<\/p>\n

The Browns were 5-12 this season and 8-26 the past two years.<\/p>\n

Former Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel was slated to have a second interview on Wednesday before informing the Browns that he was withdrawing from consideration.<\/p>\n

Cleveland was also slated to have second interviews with Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Minter, Rams pass game coordinator Nate Scheelhaase and Jaguars offensive coordinator Grant Udinski.<\/p>\n

The Browns’ search is expected to go until at least early next week, since they will have to have an in-person interview with one more minority candidate to fulfill Rooney Rule requirements. They also can’t interview Scheelhaase until at least Monday since the Rams are still in the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Todd Monken had his second interview on Tuesday for the Cleveland Browns’ coaching job. What You Need…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[1615,1613,2910,184,117,2282,85,7,88,6,996,31515,169,1614,9,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-693564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-baltimore","12":"tag-baltimore-ravens","13":"tag-baltimoreravens","14":"tag-cleveland","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-ohio","19":"tag-ohio-cleveland-browns","20":"tag-ravens","21":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115932813369162202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}