{"id":507281,"date":"2026-01-22T19:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=507281"},"modified":"2026-01-22T19:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:05:41","slug":"ravens-appointing-chargers-defensive-coordinator-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ravens-appointing-chargers-defensive-coordinator-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens appointing Chargers defensive coordinator as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Ravens revealed that they appointed LA Chargers DC Jesse Minter to be their new head coach today, as the fast-rising boss will replace John Harbaugh. Jesse is getting a 5-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Minter has been the DC for Jim Harbaugh for the last 4 years, overseeing the defenses at the University of Michigan and Los Angeles in the NFL. However, Jesse\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> job in the league came with John Harbaugh in Baltimore, where he was a DA for 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true to become the manager of the Ravens,\u201d Jesse shared. \u201cBaltimore is a team whose values, culture, and tradition of excellence are everything, something that I admire, and that\u2019s something every organization must have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of Minter, who had been the favorite to become the head coach of Baltimore, comes less than 3 weeks after the Ravens dismissed Harbaugh, the team\u2019s winningest coach, who was fired after 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore interviewed 16 candidates for the vacancy, as the other head coaches who were interviewed twice were also the Dolphins&#8217; DC, Anthony Weaver, and the Bills\u2019 OC, Joe Brady.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your next coach of the Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n<p>We have agreed to terms with Jesse Minter to be our head coach! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5VEBGk8iB1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5VEBGk8iB1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ravens\/status\/2014463405277474965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Ravens revealed that they appointed LA Chargers DC Jesse Minter to be their new head coach today, as the fast-rising boss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507283,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17241,27011],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18573,27012],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Baltimore is hiring the DC as the new boss of the franchise.","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\/507281"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507284,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507281\/revisions\/507284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507281"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=507281"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=507281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}