{"id":707384,"date":"2026-01-26T22:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/707384\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T22:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:20:24","slug":"ravens-to-interview-lions-wrs-coach-scottie-montgomery-for-oc-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/707384\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens to interview Lions WRs coach Scottie Montgomery for OC job"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ravens have lined up their first offensive coordinator interview since hiring head coach Jesse Minter. Lions assistant head coach\/wide receivers coach Scottie Montgomery will interview for the job, per NFL Network\u2019s Tom Pelissero<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Montgomery, 47, has spent the last three years on Dan Campbell\u2019s staff in Detroit. He was the running backs coach in 2023 and 2024, during which time Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery became the best backfield duo in the league. After Antwaan Randle El followed Ben Johnson to Chicago last offseason, Scottie Montgomery \u2013 a former NFL wideout himself \u2013 took over as the Lions\u2019 wide receivers coach.<\/p>\n

Despite losing Johnson and Randle El, Detroit\u2019s passing game still ranked third in the NFL in 2025. Tight end Sam LaPorta missed half of the season, but Montgomery\u2019s wideouts were more than able to pick up the slack. Amon-Ra St. Brown (1.401 receiving yards) and Jameson Williams (1,117 receiving yards) became the first teammates to finish among the league\u2019s top-10 receivers since Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle in 2021. St. Brown and Williams also ranked 10th and seventh, respectively, in total receiving EPA, per Next Gen Stats.<\/p>\n

A two-year stint in Indianapolis was Montgomery\u2019s last stop before joining Campbell\u2019s staff in Detroit. In 2021, he oversaw Jonathan Taylor\u2019s rushing triple crown season, but he could not help the Colts\u2019 backfield weather the loss of Taylor the following year.<\/p>\n

Prior to his success in Indianapolis and Detroit, Montgomery spent 15 years in a variety of offensive roles with both college and NFL teams. His coaching career started in 2006 at Duke, his alma mater. He served as the Blue Devils\u2019 wide receivers coach for four years before taking the same job with the Steelers. He coached a number of notable wideouts in Pittsburgh, including Antonio Brown and Mike Wallace, who both earned Pro Bowl nods in 2011. (Montgomery also coached Randle El in his final NFL season in 2010, more than a decade before the two would join forces in Detroit.)<\/p>\n

Montgomery went back to Duke for two seasons as their associate head coach\/offensive coordinator. He then took over as Eastern Carolina\u2019s head coach in 2016 but was fired after a 9-26 record in three seasons. Another offensive coordinator job, this time at Maryland under Mike Locksley, followed in 2019.<\/p>\n

The Terrapins offense ranked 94th and 110th in points (25.3) and yards per game (343.4) in Montgomery\u2019s debut year, though they ranked 23rd with 6.6 yards per play. In the COVID-shortened 2020 season, the unit once again struggled to score (23.6 ppg), though they improved to 55th in yards per game (409.0) with similar per-play efficiency as the year before. It is worth noting that Maryland lacked high-level offensive talent during Montgomery\u2019s tenure, especially at quarterback, but he was fired after just two years nonetheless.<\/p>\n

While Montgomery has plenty of success as a positional coach on his resume, his play-calling abilities are less clear. He called plays at Duke and Maryland, but never at the NFL level. This would be the biggest red flag about his candidacy for the OC job in Baltimore, and it is a difficult skill to evaluate in an interview.<\/p>\n

Given their urgency to compete in 2026, the Ravens seem far more likely to hire an experienced play-caller like Joe Brady or Kliff Kingsbury rather than roll the dice on Montgomery. But with the Lions making a second straight outside hire at OC, Montgomery might be interested in a senior offensive assistant role in Baltimore. Success with another team would get him closer to a full-time coordinator gig, and his history with both receivers and running backs could make him a valuable addition to Minter\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ravens have lined up their first offensive coordinator interview since hiring head coach Jesse Minter. Lions assistant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,95505,849,2282,7,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-707384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimore-ravens-coaching-staff","11":"tag-baltimore-ravens-news","12":"tag-baltimoreravens","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115963732325897684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707384","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=707384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}