Horton will oversee, among other things, the revamped battery of kicker, punter, and long snapper.<\/p>\n
“You start from ground zero,” Horton said. “You start at the bottom and then you build them up and you teach them what you want. They’re all good players when they walk in here, and you just make sure that you hold them to the standard. There’s a lot of \u2013 some people call it pressure. I just say, man, you just got to go out there and you’ve got do your job because their job requires a lot. When you’re the kicker, points are always going to be involved. When you’re the punter, you’ve got to flip that field. When you’re the snapper, no one notices you until something goes wrong. So I just talk to them about holding each other accountable and we’ll work from there.”<\/p>\n
Like Harbaugh, Horton has climbed the coaching ranks on special teams and continued the Ravens’ proud tradition in that phase of the game. Twelve Ravens specialists have earned 23 combined Pro Bowl honors since the franchise’s 1996 inception, including punter Jordon Stout, who has reunited with his coaches on the Giants.<\/p>\n
“It was something that was in me,” Horton said of coaching special teams. “It’s always been in me. I started on the defensive side of the ball [as an intern], but I’ve always wanted to be a special teams coach. I love developing players, and I feel like that’s a room where, at times, it becomes a lost art.”<\/p>\n
Above all else, Horton likes helping players find their opportunity.<\/p>\n
He understands the importance because he was one of them.<\/p>\n
Horton was a seventh-round selection in the 2008 NFL Draft and made the Pro Football Writers of America All-Rookie Team at safety. He played in 29 games across three seasons with Washington (2008-10), eventually concluding his playing career after a training camp stint with the Giants in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Horton will oversee, among other things, the revamped battery of kicker, punter, and long snapper. “You start from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,347,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-857466","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-football","12":"tag-homepage","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857466","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=857466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}