Tag: Rob Leonard

Raiders DL coach Rob Leonard joins coaching staff at Senior Bowl

Raiders DL coach Rob Leonard joins coaching staff at Senior Bowl

Each year you see players from the senior bowl who go to teams that had coaches on staff to get up close and personal looks at them. The Raiders have one of their coaches on hand in Mobile as well. They sent defensive line coach Rob Leonard there to coach linebackers as Tashan Reed of The Athletic reports.

Leonard coached the Raiders defensive line last season. Prior to that he had coached either outside linebackers or defensive linemen since 2017.

As the Raiders defensive line coach last season, he saw the emergence of Malcolm Koonce along with Maxx Crosby’s best season as a pro.

Raiders hire former Ravens OLB coach Rob Leonard as new defensive line coach

Raiders have a new DL coach in former Ravens OLB coach Rob Leonard

Largely, the Raiders defensive line struggled last season. Specifically along the interior. Their underachieving led to the ouster of Frank Okam after just one season on the job.

Okam’s exit was official a week ago and today Ravens head coach John Harbaugh announced that outside linebackers coach Rob Leonard has been hired by the Raiders to coach their defensive line.

Leonard has coached at the NFL for the past ten seasons. He spent just one season as the outside linebackers coach in Baltimore after three seasons in Miami.

He held different coaching jobs in each of his three seasons with the Dolphins. First as linebackers coach (2019), then as assistant defensive line coach (2020), and then as outside linebackers coach (2021).

Twice in his career, Leonard coached under Raiders defensive coordinator Patrick Graham.

Graham took over as defensive line coach for the Giants in 2016 while Leonard was a defensive assistant. Then when Graham was hired as the defensive coordinator for the Dolphins in 2019, he hired Leonard to be his linebackers coach.

Now Graham had the chance to bring Leonard onto this staff again, and he took it.

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Ravens officially announce five coaching hires

The Ravens officially announced multiple coaching hires

The Baltimore Ravens have been on quite the coaching carousel during the start of the 2022 offseason. They replaced their now-former defensive coordinator Don Martindale with the University of Michigan’s Mike Macdonald, and have seen other coaches leave for other opportunities, creating holes on their staff.

On Wednesday, Baltimore officially announced the hires of five coaches in inside linebackers coach Zach Orr, outside linebackers coach Rob Leonard, tight ends coach George Godsey, defensive quality control coach Ryan Osborn and assistant offensive line coach Mike Devlin.

All five hires were previously reported, so they didn’t come as much of a shock. They will be tasked with working to help their players become the best that they can be, and each brings valuable and unique experiences to Baltimore.

Report: Dolphins retain defensive line coach, lose outside linebackers coach

More continuity.

Less than a week after head coach Mike McDaniel was hired by the Miami Dolphins for his role, he has a good portion of his coaching staff already in place.

According to the Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson, the Dolphins are keeping defensive line coach Austin Clark in his position for the 2022 season. Clark becomes the first positional coach to be retained after the team moved on from defensive backs coach George Alexander and tight ends coach George Godsey.

Clark will continue to work under defensive coordinator Josh Boyer, as he has since 2020 when he was brought on to be the outside linebackers coach. He’ll continue to work with Christian Wilkins, Zach Sieler, and company, but his group does have a big free agent in Emmanuel Ogbah who Clark would probably want back.

The Dolphins also lost outside linebackers coach Rob Leonard to the Baltimore Ravens on Friday, as he was signed for the same position, according to The Athletic’s Jeff Zrebiec.

In three years with Miami, Leonard moved around from linebackers coach to assistant defensive line coach and finally to outside linebackers in 2021. He got a great opportunity to work with rookie Jaelan Phillips, Andrew Van Ginkel, and Jerome Baker this past year, and he’ll look to build on that production with Baltimore in 2022.

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Ravens reportedly make two more additions to coaching staff

The Baltimore Ravens have reportedly made two new additions to their coaching staff

The Baltimore Ravens have been riding the coaching carousel for much of the 2022 offseason. Multiple coaching positions have been vacated and new faces have been brought in, including as high up as at defensive coordinator.

On Friday morning, it was reported by Jeff Zrebiec of The Athletic and others that Baltimore made two new additions to their coaching staff in hiring Rob Leonard to be their new outside linebackers coach, while Ryan Osborne is being brought on board in a quality control capacity.

Leonard has spent time with the Miami Dolphins and the New York Giants, with his most recent experience being as Miami’s outside linebackers coach. He also has experience as a defensive line coach, so he can work with multiple positions on the defense if need be.

Osborn comes over from the University of Michigan, where he is credited with helping the development of some of the program’s EDGE players such as Aidan Hutchinson and David Ojabo.