{"id":745550,"date":"2026-02-11T20:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/745550\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:19:25","slug":"ravens-hiring-keary-colbert-as-wide-receivers-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/745550\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens Hiring Keary Colbert as Wide Receivers Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ravens have reportedly targeted another assistant coach who has previously worked with new <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoreravens.com\/news\/declan-doyle-ravens-hiring-offensive-coordinator-jesse-minter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Offensive Coordinator Declan Doyle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keary Colbert is expected to be hired as the Ravens&#8217; wide receivers coach, per <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mzenitz\/status\/2021652751831511103?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CBS Sports\u2019 Matt Zenitz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert has been the Denver Broncos&#8217; wide receivers coach for the past three seasons and spent two of those years working with Doyle. Two other coaches who are reportedly joining Baltimore&#8217;s staff also worked with Doyle in Denver \u2013 <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoreravens.com\/news\/zach-grossi-ravens-hire-tight-ends-coach-jesse-minter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tight Ends Coach Zack Grossi<\/a> and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoreravens.com\/news\/joe-lombardi-hired-ravens-jesse-minter-offensive-assistant-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Senior Offensive Assistant Joe Lombardi<\/a>. Colbert was also the assistant wide receivers coach at Georgia State in 2013, when Head Coach Jesse Minter was Georgia State&#8217;s defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old Colbert has enjoyed significant success working with wide receivers at both the college and NFL levels.<\/p>\n<p>Courtland Sutton is coming off back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons with the Broncos and made the Pro Bowl in 2025 for just the second time in his eight-year career.<\/p>\n<p>While Colbert was the wide receivers coach at USC (2019-2021), he helped develop current NFL standouts Drake London, Michael Pittman Jr., and Amon-Ra St. Brown. During his one season as Florida&#8217;s wide receivers coach (2022), Colbert worked with San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert spent seven seasons in the NFL (2004-2009, 2011) playing for five different teams. His best season was his rookie year with the Carolina Panthers, when he caught 47 passes for 754 yards and five touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Lewis, the Ravens&#8217; wide receivers coach for the past three seasons, has departed to become the Tennessee Titans&#8217; wide receivers coach, according to reports. In Baltimore, Colbert would work with the Ravens&#8217; talented young receiver group that includes two-time Pro Bowler Zay Flowers, Rashod Bateman, Devontez Walker, and LaJohntay Wester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ravens have reportedly targeted another assistant coach who has previously worked with new Offensive Coordinator Declan Doyle.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,783,7,781,786,20472,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-745550","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-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-clifton-brown","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-general","14":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","15":"tag-inline-news","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116053853281513195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745550","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=745550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}