Reportedly, Browns Assistant Coach Is Heading To College Ranks After Leaving Cleveland
The Browns will have to replace yet another vacancy after a busy summer of coaching changes, as offensive assistant Jonathan DeCoster is expected to join the Florida Gators’ staff.
More changes are apparently on the way for the Browns coaching staff, just when you thought they were set in stone.
Jonathan DeCoster, the offensive assistant for Cleveland, will be joining the University of Florida as a co-offensive line coach, according to Matt Zenitz of 247 Sports and CBS Sports. Rob Sale, who is now the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach for the Gators, is anticipated to collaborate closely with him.
After everything is said and done, it would be the team’s seventh coaching staff change of the offseason, with six occurring on the offensive end. The Cleveland brass reevaluated the coaching staff as a whole in the weeks that followed the team’s heartbreaking blowout defeat to the Houston Texans in the Wild Card Round, and decided to part ways with a number of coaches.
Coaches T.C. McCartney for tight ends, Stump Mitchell for running backs, and most significantly, offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt, were on that list. The Browns moved swiftly to cover those positions, adding Tommy Rees, Duce Staley, and Ken Dorsey to the team, respectively.
Shortly after assembling his team, however, Kevin Stefanski was forced to fill a second post when famed offensive line coach Bill Callahan left to work for his son in Tennessee. Shortly after, Scott Peters, the assistant offensive line coach, departed as well. To complete his offensive staff for 2024, Stefanski hired Eagles assistant o-line coach Roy Istvan and former Seahawks o-line coach Andy Dickerson to fill those jobs.
However, based on Zenitz’s announcement of Decoster’s most recent shift, it appears that there will be yet another change soon. Decoster spent the eight years before joining Stefanski’s staff in 2021 playing college football. He was an offensive quality control coach in 2021, his first season with the squad. In the year of his promotion to offensive assistant
