The defensive coaching staff under Kevin Stefanski is officially starting to take shape. While there have been all sorts of reports on several different defensive assistant positions, the first coach to officially join the Browns behind defensive coordinator Joe Woods is Jeff Howard.
Howard will be the defensive backs coach and passing game coordinator for the Browns defense. He’s spent his entire NFL coaching career working with Stefanski in Minnesota in a variety of assistant positions.
His NFL coaching timeline, all with the Vikings:
2013 – assistant to the head coach
2014-2015 – defensive assistant
2016-2017 – defensive assistant/linebackers
2018-2019 – assistant DBs coach
Before joining the Vikings, he coached at Texas Tech as well as Odessa Perriman High School, made famous in Friday Night Lights. He played linebacker in college at Eastern New Mexico.