Baltimore is working on a contract extension with offensive coordinator Todd Monken, who guided the Ravens to the No. 1 offense in total yards and rushing average this season, ESPN reported on Monday.
After each of the past two seasons in Baltimore, the 58-year-old Monken has drawn interest from NFL teams with vacant head coaching positions, including the Los Angeles Chargers and Carolina Panthers following the 2023 season, as well as the Jacksonville Jaguars and Chicago Bears since the 2024 regular season ended.
“He’s an old-school football coach with kind of a new-school and creative mind,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said last week. “I really am excited about 3.0, that iteration of this offense going forward, because we found ourselves through the last offseason and into this season, in terms of how we want to organize the offense and tie it all together and use the different platforms that you can use.”
The Ravens averaged 424.9 total yards and 187.6 rushing yards to lead the league. Their average of 30.5 points per game was third. Quarterback Lamar Jackson, a finalist for NFL Most Valuable Player, completed 316 of 474 passes (66.7 percent) for 4,172 yards and 41 touchdowns — all career highs. Jackson also rushed for 915 yards and four TDs.
Baltimore rushed for a league-best 156.5 yards per game in 2023.
Monken came to Baltimore after spending three years as the OC and quarterbacks coach at the University of Georgia, which captured national championships in 2021 and 2022.
His previous NFL experience includes being the offensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns in 2019 and for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2016-18. He also was the Jaguars’ wide receivers coach in 2007-10.
Monken also was head coach for Southern Mississippi (2013-15), where his teams went a combined 13-25, including 9-5 in 2015.
–Field Level Media
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