{"id":705970,"date":"2026-01-26T08:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/705970\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:57:26","slug":"ravens-special-teams-coordinator-leaves-for-same-role-with-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/705970\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens special teams coordinator leaves for same role with Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special teams coordinator Chris Horton following John Harbaugh to Giants, a trend that may continue<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769417846_239_wbal.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WBAL logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 5:18 PM EST Jan 25, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tChris Horton is following John Harbaugh to the New York Giants, WBAL-TV 11 Sports confirmed.It is a trend that could continue with both coaches and players. It comes after Harbaugh was fired and soon after hired by New York.Horton, a former defensive back, joined Harbaugh&#8217;s staff in 2014, eventually becoming the team&#8217;s special teams coordinator. Horton will be an assistant head coach and special teams coordinator with the Giants.His departure from the organization comes just days after the team announced Jesse Minter as the new head coach.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tBALTIMORE \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Chris Horton is following John Harbaugh to the New York Giants, WBAL-TV 11 Sports confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>It is a trend that could continue with both coaches and players. It comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/article\/john-harbaugh-ravens-part-ways-fired-18-seasons\/69928836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Harbaugh was fired<\/a> and soon after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/article\/former-ravens-coach-john-harbaugh-sign-new-york-giants\/70004522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hired by New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Horton, a former defensive back, joined Harbaugh&#8217;s staff in 2014, eventually becoming the team&#8217;s special teams coordinator. Horton will be an assistant head coach and special teams coordinator with the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>His departure from the organization comes just days after the team announced Jesse Minter as the new head coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Special teams coordinator Chris Horton following John Harbaugh to Giants, a trend that may continue Updated: 5:18 PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2067],"tags":[46697,48387,102660,102661,21,12141,7,519,102662,10097,2909,1917,56,2321,2469,6,8024,188,169,102663,102664,102665,102667,102668,817,14130,22228,102666],"class_list":{"0":"post-705970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-assistant-head-coach","9":"tag-chris-horton","10":"tag-chris-horton-ravens","11":"tag-chris-horton-special-teams","12":"tag-day","13":"tag-departure","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-giants","16":"tag-giants-chris-horton","17":"tag-jesse-minter","18":"tag-john-harbaugh","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-giants","21":"tag-newyork","22":"tag-newyorkgiants","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-organization","25":"tag-player","26":"tag-ravens","27":"tag-ravens-coach-chris-horton","28":"tag-ravens-giants","29":"tag-ravens-giants-coaches","30":"tag-ravens-special-team-coordinator","31":"tag-same-role","32":"tag-sport","33":"tag-staff","34":"tag-trend","35":"tag-who-is-chris-horton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115960574554618767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705970","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=705970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}