{"id":737164,"date":"2026-02-08T03:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/737164\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T03:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T03:28:16","slug":"cleveland-browns-hc-todd-monken-stays-in-house-for-wr-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/737164\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns HC Todd Monken stays in-house for WR coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cleveland Browns head coach Todd Monken has not taken a kind eye to the offensive coaching staff he inherited in Berea after being named Cleveland\u2019s new man in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A few coaches had already left town before Monken arrived, most notably offensive coordinator Tommy Rees, who joined head coach Kevin Stefanski\u2019s staff in the same role with the Atlanta Falcons, and pass game coordinator\/wide receivers coach Chad O\u2019Shea, who is now with the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Just this past week, it was assistant wide receivers coach Stephen Bravo-Brown, who is off to the Dallas Cowboys to take on a similar role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Monken has filled many of the coaching vacancies on the offensive side of the ball with outside candidates, but he is staying in house for at least one spot, as Christian Jones will reportedly take over as wide receivers coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That is according to Matt Zenitz at CBS Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jones joined Cleveland\u2019s coaching staff in 2025 as tight ends coach, which was one of the few bright spots on offense thanks to rookie tight end Harold Fannin Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jones broke into the NFL coaching ranks in 2019 when he was hired by the Minnesota Vikings as an offensive quality control coach. He then spent two seasons (2020 and 2021) as assistant wide receivers coach with the Vikings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cleveland\u2019s wide receiver group presents a big challenge for Jones, as presumptive No. 1 wide receiver Jerry Jeudy played like anything but in 2025, and Cedric Tillman, Gage Larvadain, Jamari Thrash, Malachi Corley, and Isaiah Bond tried hard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With Jones staying on boad, he can show the new guys where everything is at team headquarters, as Monken\u2019s coaching staff includes, or will eventually include:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What say you, Browns fans? Can Jones help fix whatever it is that ails Cleveland\u2019s wide receivers? Don\u2019t be shy about sharing your thoughts in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns head coach Todd Monken has not taken a kind eye to the offensive coaching staff he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,89287,2337,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-737164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-cleveland-browns-coaching-staff","12":"tag-clevelandbrowns","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116032891230076398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737164","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=737164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}