{"id":707897,"date":"2026-01-27T02:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/707897\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:55:12","slug":"ravens-coaching-update-dwayne-ledford-possible-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/707897\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens Coaching Update: Dwayne Ledford Possible Hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ravens Coaching Update: Dwayne Ledford Possible Hire<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/>Atlanta Falcons run game coordinator\/OL coach Dwayne Ledford is a strong candidate to join Jesse Minter\u2019s staff, adding experience developing offensive lines and coordinating the run game.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 26, 2026, 7:17 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p>Former Falcons Run Game Coordinator Emerges as Minter Staff Candidate<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Athletic&#8217;s Jeff Zrebiec is reporting that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/atlanta-falcons\/323\" data-autotag=\"55e278ca-caf0-429b-8b4a-caeb78bff5ff\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> run game coordinator\/OL coach Dwayne Ledford is a strong candidate to join Jesse Minter&#8217;s staff. He became available after Bill Callahan was hired by the Falcons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">If hired, Ledford would bring NFL and college experience to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/baltimore-ravens\/366\" data-autotag=\"6f9d8950-4e8a-4277-ba96-ee5ce9eb842e\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Ravens<\/a> staff that is beginning to take shape under Minter. His background developing offensive lines and coordinating the run game would add another respected voice to the room as Baltimore looks to build a strong, well-rounded coaching staff heading into the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 ravenswire.usatoday.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ravens Coaching Update: Dwayne Ledford Possible HireAtlanta Falcons run game coordinator\/OL coach Dwayne Ledford is a strong candidate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[95878,223,254,2554,224,7,6,96963,96964,95882,96609,95898,95896,95888,95895,95906,96177,95884,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-707897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflravens","16":"tag-sstsnravens","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagatlanta-falcons","19":"tag-tagbaltimore-ravens","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagoverall-positive","24":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","25":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115964813512103629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707897","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=707897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}