{"id":774257,"date":"2026-02-24T23:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/774257\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:28:28","slug":"cleveland-browns-hire-75-year-old-former-nfl-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/774257\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns Hire 75-Year-Old Former NFL Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/cleveland-browns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Browns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cleveland Browns<\/a> have a new head coach, but there\u2019s no guarantee that Todd Monken will immediately get better results in his first season. Yet, the Browns are taking steps to make sure Monken has experienced minds he can rely on throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JFowlerESPN\/status\/2026304541306523844\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN\u2019s NFL insider Jeremy Fowler;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ESPN\u2019s NFL insider Jeremy Fowler<\/a> reported that the Browns have hired 75-year-old Dom Capers to Monken\u2019s staff. Capers will serve the team as a senior defensive assistant.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Capers has been a head coach for a total of eight seasons, split between the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/carolina-panthers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Carolina Panthers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Carolina Panthers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/houston-texans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Texans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Houston Texans<\/a>. However, he\u2019s also spent 16 seasons as an NFL defensive coordinator with the Packers, Steelers, Jaguars, and Dolphins. His lost job as a defensive coordinator came in 2017 in Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent work came with the Panthers, where he\u2019s spent the past three seasons as a senior defensive assistant in Carolina. That\u2019s the same job he\u2019s been serving since 2019, between the Jaguars, Vikings, Lions, Broncos, and Panthers. Now he\u2019ll see if he can help Monken and defensive coordinator Mike Rutenberg in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>With a first-year head coach, offensive coordinator, and defensive coordinator, the Browns will need help any way they can get it next season, and now that plan includes Capers too.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/5-likeliest-kirk-cousins-free-215235214.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:5 Likeliest Kirk Cousins Free Agency Landing Spots After Falcons Release;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5 Likeliest Kirk Cousins Free Agency Landing Spots After Falcons Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Headlines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Browns have a new head coach, but there\u2019s no guarantee that Todd Monken will immediately get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[232,86,260,85,54,2337,2792,48524,7,41,6496,253,213,6,426,582,23813],"class_list":{"0":"post-774257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-browns","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-cleveland-browns","13":"tag-clevelandbrowns","14":"tag-defensive-coordinator","15":"tag-dom-capers","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-green-bay","18":"tag-head-coach","19":"tag-houston-texans","20":"tag-jaguars","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-steelers","23":"tag-the-browns","24":"tag-todd-monken"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116128206892088930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774257","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=774257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}