{"id":712959,"date":"2026-01-29T02:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/712959\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T02:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:59:15","slug":"cleveland-browns-hire-todd-monken-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/712959\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns hire Todd Monken as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

The seemingly dysfunctional Cleveland Browns<\/a> have a head coach before the Arizona Cardinals<\/a>. The Cardinals and the Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> are the last two teams without a new head coach of the 10 who were looking for one.<\/p>\n

The Browns agreed to hire former Baltimore Ravens<\/a> offensive coordinator Todd Monken as their next head coach.<\/p>\n

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It wasn’t without some strife. Defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz was a finalist. He remains under contract, but now he wants out after being passed over. Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> offensive coordinator Grant Udinski was considered, but he withdrew his name from consideration.<\/p>\n

But after all that, they do at least have a new coach.<\/p>\n

What teams have new head coaches?<\/p>\n

Eight teams have hired new head coaches.<\/p>\n

Atlanta Falcons: Kevin Stefanski<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Steelers: Mike McCarthy<\/p>\n

Baltimore Ravens: Jesse Minter<\/p>\n

Miami Dolphins: Jeff Hafley<\/p>\n

Cleveland Browns: Todd Monken<\/p>\n

The Cardinals and Raiders both do not.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: Cleveland Browns hire Todd Monken as new head coach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The seemingly dysfunctional Cleveland Browns have a head coach before the Arizona Cardinals. The Cardinals and the Las…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[390,254,117,86,53,85,54,2337,1885,7,6496,125,22881,393,251,56,6,57,394,6957,23813],"class_list":{"0":"post-712959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-baltimore-ravens","11":"tag-browns","12":"tag-buffalo-bills","13":"tag-cleveland","14":"tag-cleveland-browns","15":"tag-clevelandbrowns","16":"tag-coach","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-head-coach","19":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","20":"tag-jim-schwartz","21":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","22":"tag-miami-dolphins","23":"tag-new-york-giants","24":"tag-nfl","25":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","26":"tag-tennessee-titans","27":"tag-the-cardinals","28":"tag-todd-monken"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115976153741261427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712959","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=712959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}