Rosburg not returning to Ravens
Ex-special teams coach couldn’t reach agreement
Jerry Rosburg is not returning to the Ravens after all.
The team’s former longtime special teams coach will not be back in Baltimore as talks between the two sides did not result in a deal, a source with direct knowledge confirmed to The Baltimore Sun on Tuesday. NFL
Network had reported Monday that Rosburg would have a role focused on game management.
Rosburg, 68, most recently served as an assistant for the Denver Broncos under coach Nathaniel Hackett in 2022 and then as the Broncos’ interim coach for two games after Hackett was fired in December of that season.
Before that, Rosburg was the Ravens’ special teams coordinator from 2008 to 2018 before retiring.
Rosburg was also the special teams coordinator for the Cleveland Browns from 2001 to 2006 and for the Atlanta Falcons in 2007. He is close with Ravens coach John Harbaugh — Rosburg’s daughter is Harbaugh’s assistant — as well and attended some of the team’s practices this past season.
Mallory reportedly to coach defensive backs
New Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh has already poached a couple of coaches and front office staff from the Ravens. Now it’s apparently his brother John’s turn.
Former Michigan defensive analyst Doug Mallory will join the elder Harbaugh brother in Baltimore as the team’s defensive backs coach, according to 247Sports.
Mallory, 59, worked for three seasons with Jim Harbaugh at Michigan. He replaces Dennard Wilson, who left to become the Tennessee Titans’ defensive coordinator.
A veteran coach with more than 30 years of experience mostly at the college level, including as defensive backs coach at Maryland from 1997 to 2000, Mallory spent six seasons with the Atlanta Falcons from 2015 to 2020 under coach Dan Quinn, first as a defensive assistant then as defensive backs coach and a senior defensive assistant.
Like the Harbaugh brothers, Mallory comes from a coaching family. His father, Bill, was a longtime coach at Indiana, among other stops, and his brother Mike was a veteran NFL assistant who most recently spent time on Jim Harbaugh’s Michigan staff as a special teams analyst. His other brother Curt is the football coach at Indiana State.
Mallory, who played defensive back for Michigan from 1984 through 1987 under coach Bo Schembechler but was undrafted and never played in the NFL, returned to Ann Arbor in 2021 as a defensive analyst under the younger Harbaugh. This past season, the Wolverines had college football’s top defense, allowing 10.4 points and 247 yards per game en route to the school’s first national championship since 1997.