Report: Ravens to lose Assistant Wide Receivers Coach Keith Williams to New Orleans Saints.
The Baltimore Ravens’ coaching staff has been replaced since the end of the 2023 season, making it difficult to understand why they did not win the Super Bowl. According to Nick Underhill of New Orleans Football, Assistant Wide Receivers Coach Keith Williams will join the coaching staff of the New Orleans Saints after interviewing for the position last week.
Williams has been with Ravens Head Coach John Harbaugh’s staff since the 2021 season, first as a pass game specialist and then as an assistant receivers coach last year. Prior to his arrival in Baltimore, he established himself as one of the top individual position coaches in the league, having worked with and developed some of the league’s best wideouts, including multi-time All-Pros Davante Adams and Tyreek Hill.
In his first year with the Ravens, Williams helped develop former first-round pick Marquise ‘Hollywood’ Brown into the franchise’s first 1,000-yard receiver since 2016. This season, he assisted Ravens Wide Receivers Coach Greg Lewis in guiding 2023 first-round pick Zay Flowers to a standout rookie season in which he broke multiple franchise records for first-year pass catchers, finishing with 86 catches on 121 targets for 1,014 receiving yards and six touchdowns in 18 games, including the playoffs.
Williams will return to New Orleans, where he previously coached wide receivers at Tulane University from 2012 to 2014. He will succeed Kodi Burns, who has held the post for the past two seasons and has a 12-year coaching career. He will be in charge of a great group of receivers, led by young rising sensation Chris Olave, who has exceeded 1,000 receiving yards in each of his first two seasons. Rashid Shaheed and Michael Thomas also appear.
In other coaching news, former Ravens linebacker Josh Bynes will join one of his former defensive coordinators, Mike Macdonald, in the Pacific Northwest to begin his coaching career. According to Aaron Wilson of KPCR in Houston, after interviewing with the Ravens and Los Angeles Chargers for linebackers coach vacancies, he will join Mike Macdonald with the Seattle Seahawks as an assistant linebackers coach.
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