{"id":416980,"date":"2023-02-22T12:37:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T17:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=416980"},"modified":"2023-02-22T12:37:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T17:37:52","slug":"ravens-to-hire-willie-taggart-as-running-backs-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ravens-to-hire-willie-taggart-as-running-backs-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens to hire Willie Taggart as running backs coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d3-l-col__col-8\">\n<div class=\"nfl-c-article__container\">\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>Only a week after hiring Georgia&#8217;s Todd Monken as their offensive coordinator, The Baltimore Ravens \u0430\u0440\u0435 expected to appoint Willie Taggart &#8212; a five-time college football head coach &#8212; as their running backs coach, according to NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Ravens are hiring Willie Taggart as their running backs coach, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TomPelissero<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>He spent time coaching FAU, Florida State, Oregon, South Florida, Western Kentucky, and was once Jim Harbaughs RB coach in Stanford. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VoWT9TJ89S\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VoWT9TJ89S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ravens Nation LIVE (@LIVERavenNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LIVERavenNation\/status\/1628434272066347014?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Taggart&#8217;s first head-coaching job in college was at Western Kentucky in 2010, engineering a massive program overhaul there.<\/p>\n<p>He was then a head coach at South Florida (2013-16), Oregon (2017), Florida State (2018-19) and Florida Atlantic (2020-22). His overall record as a head coach was a combined 71-80 at the five stops.<\/p>\n<article class=\"d3-l-section-row nfl-c-article\">\n<div class=\"d3-l-grid--outer\">\n<div class=\"nfl-c-article__body d3-l-grid--inner\" data-require=\"modules\/smoothScroller\" data-require-loaded=\"true\">\n<div class=\"d3-l-col__col-8\">\n<div class=\"nfl-c-article__container\">\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>Taggart now also has a connection to three branches of the Harbaugh coaching tree, first playing quarterback at Western Kentucky for father Jack Harbaugh in the 1990s, later serving as Jim Harbaugh&#8217;s running backs coach at Stanford from 2007 to 2009 and now joining John Harbaugh&#8217;s staff in Baltimore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>Taggart had served as an analyst for Colorado on Deion Sanders&#8217; staff since being fired at FAU and prior to accepting the Ravens job.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>Craig Ver Steeg, who has been on the Ravens&#8217; staff for 15 years, had been Baltimore&#8217;s running backs coach since the start of the 2019 season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a week after hiring Georgia&#8217;s Todd Monken as their offensive coordinator, The Baltimore Ravens \u0430\u0440\u0435 expected to appoint Willie Taggart &#8212; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":416981,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17241],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He was head coach at South Florida, Oregon, Florida State and Florida Atlantic","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/416980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/416980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416980"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=416980"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=416980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}