Potential candidates emerge for Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator role

Los Browns de Cleveland They could bring back one of the many quarterbacks who paraded through the team to take charge of their offense.

The team interviewed Ken Dorsey to be his offensive coordinator on Friday, a person with knowledge of the matter told The Associated Press on Sunday.

Dorsey, who was fired for Buffalo During the season, he is the second candidate to meet with Cleveland, who will have more interviews, according to the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Browns are not making the interviews public.

Los Browns They also have a meeting scheduled with Houston Texans quarterbacks coach Jerrod Johnson for the offensive coordinator position, the person said. Johnson worked this season on the rookie’s development C.J. Stroud.

The first media to report the interview with Dorsey It was CBSsports.com, while ESPN.com was the first to publish the interview with Johnson.

Dorsey played with the Browns from 2006-08 and is one of Cleveland’s 37 starting quarterbacks since returning to the NFL with expansion in 1999. Dorsey went 0-3 as a starter in 2008. He also played for San Francisco.

Dorsey, 42, was Buffalo’s offensive coordinator until he was fired by coach Sean McDermott in November. The Bills host the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday in an AFC playoff game with the winner facing Baltimore for the AFC championship.

Cleveland has the offensive coordinator position vacant after the surprise departure earlier this week of Alex Van Pelt, who was part of Kevin Stefanski’s coaching staff since 2020.

Van Pelt was fired along with running backs coach Stump Mitchell and tight ends coach TC McCartney days after being eliminated 45-14 in the wild card round by the Houston Texans.

The Browns did not release the reasons for Van Pelt’s departure. General manager Andrew Berry has a news conference scheduled for Monday.

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Last week, the team interviewed Seattle offensive line coach Andy Dickerson for the offensive coordinator position. Dickerson was an assistant coach with Cleveland under Eric Mangini in 2009-10. He spent the last three seasons with Pete Carroll’s Seahawks coaching staff.

2024-01-22 01:23:35
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