{"id":741375,"date":"2026-02-10T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/741375\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:00:13","slug":"browns-interview-panthers-assistant-jonathan-cooley-for-vacant-dc-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/741375\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns interview Panthers assistant Jonathan Cooley for vacant DC job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 9, 2026, 4:17 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The list of <a href=\"http:\/\/brownswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/browns\/2026\/02\/09\/browns-interview-ephraim-banda-jason-tarver-dc\/88578805007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">possible replacements for Jim Schwartz<\/a> as the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cleveland-browns\/329\" data-autotag=\"9cb205d1-d46a-4c2c-a80a-90061986bc20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cleveland Browns<\/a>&#8216; defensive coordinator continues to grow. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JFowlerESPN\/status\/2020920675742122335?s=20\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN&#8217;s Jeremy Fowler is reporting<\/a> that Cleveland has requested permission to interview <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" data-autotag=\"8afac4d1-41b4-4302-b154-b45f5b48a0d2\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> defensive pass game coordinator Jonathan Cooley for their defensive coordinator position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Cooley has been the Panthers&#8217; defensive pass game coordinator for the past two seasons, after serving as the team&#8217;s Secondary\/Cornerbacks coach in 2023. Prior to that, Cooley was with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" data-autotag=\"f489e821-d3f9-4cff-bec5-7eaa0f4b51cb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> from 2020 to 2023, first as a defensive assistant, then as an assistant secondary coach in 2021, and as the defensive backs coach in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Before making the jump to the NFL, Cooley spent a season as the defensive backs coach for Akron in 2019 and the secondary coach for Kent State in 2018. The Browns want to get this hire right. The <a href=\"http:\/\/brownswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/browns\/2026\/02\/09\/myles-garrett-receives-message-from-browns-teammates-after-dpoy-win\/88578717007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defensive roster is full of talent<\/a>, but Todd Monken and Andrew Berry want to do their due diligence to ensure they find the right guy to lead it.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:3|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 9, 2026, 4:17 p.m. ET The list of possible replacements for Jim Schwartz as the Cleveland Browns&#8216;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[95878,235,260,2567,7,6,4779,236,97243,97244,95882,96059,100752,95957,95892,99412,95924,95896,95888,95895,95906,95884,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-741375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-oh","15":"tag-panthers","16":"tag-sstssportsnflbrowns","17":"tag-sstsnbrowns","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagcarolina-panthers","20":"tag-tagcleveland","21":"tag-tagcleveland-browns","22":"tag-tagespn-inc","23":"tag-tagkent-state-university","24":"tag-taglos-angeles-rams","25":"tag-tagnational-sports","26":"tag-tagnfl","27":"tag-tagnfl-hub","28":"tag-tagoverall-positive","29":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","30":"tag-tagsports-news","31":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741375","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=741375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}