The Baltimore Ravens announced their full coaching staff under new head coach Jesse Minter on Thursday, confirming a number of reported hires for the team.
Baltimore Beatdown has already covered most of these hires, and links to those articles can be found in our 2026 Ravens Coaching Staff Tracker. Here’s a look at the rest of the new coaches we have yet to discuss:
Christina DeRuyter, Chief of Staff
DeRuyter is a name closely associated with Minter throughout their football careers. The daughter of longtime college defensive coordinator Tim DeRutyer, she has been involved with football her entire life. DeRuyter graduated from Texas A&M Aggie (Gig ‘Em) and officially began working for the Aggies football department and broadcast team as a student. She worked on recruiting and operations staffs at Arizona, Texas Tech, Vanderbilt and Michigan, where she worked with Jim Harbaugh alongside Minter when he arrived in 2022. She then followed Harbaugh and Minter to the Los Angeles Chargers as director of football logistics. DeRuyter and colleague John Wiedmeier won the 2024 AFC Travel Directors of the Year award with the Chargers for their help with the team’s operations and its travel schedule, as they won 11 games in Harbaugh’s first year. He now follows Minter to Baltimore with a new title, but he will apparently have a similar role in team operations. Clearly, Minter is confident in someone who will help the team excel.
Lou Esposito, defensive line coach
Esposito is a veteran coach with 23 years of experience and now lands his first NFL job with the Baltimore Ravens. Just three years into his young career, Esposito became head coach at Saint Joseph’s College, where he won two Great Lakes Conference titles. He has 12 years of experience as a defensive line coach, with 10 years in two stints at Western Michigan and, most recently, two years at Michigan in 2024 and 2025. Esposito will now work with the Ravens’ new defensive coordinator and defensive line wizard, Anthony Weaver, as Weaver helps Minter set up the defense.
Shawn Flaherty, assistant offensive line coach
Flaherty played offensive line at Towson, making this hire something of a homecoming. He has been coaching his old position group for nine years. He started as a graduate assistant at North Carolina for two years before heading to the Miami Dolphins as an analyst and then assistant offensive line coach. Flaherty then went to Atlanta in the same role and spent his final three seasons there, where he worked under new Ravens offensive line coach Dwayne Ledford. The two come together again in Baltimore to fix one of the weakest parts of last season.
Prentice Gill, assistant wide receivers coach
Gill will remain in Baltimore after spending his last two seasons here as a coach. He has now earned a full role as assistant wide receivers coach under new wide receivers coach Keary Colbert. Gill and Colbert worked together at USC from 2016 to 2018, where Gill was a graduate assistant. After that, Gill spent one season at Oregon as an offensive analyst before spending four years as wide receivers coach at Arizona State. Gill has been noted as a locker room favorite who brought energy to practice and the Ravens wide receivers enjoyed working with him.
Ben Koticwa, senior assistant special teams coach
Koticwa is an eight-year Army veteran who graduated from West Point while playing four years as a linebacker there. Following his years of service, Koticwa jumped into coaching, starting at USMA Prep School as a defensive coordinator before beginning his NFL coaching career, which spanned 18 years of special teams experience from 2007 to 2025, with an interim of a year in the Army as director of player personnel.
Rick Minter, football analyst
Jesse Minter’s father, Rick Minter, has more than 40 years of coaching experience and will now work with his son on the same staff for the ninth year. More recently, Rick Minter spent two years in Michigan with young Minter, then two years in Los Angeles before following his son to Baltimore. The elder statesman coach spent nearly a decade as head coach at the University of Cincinnati from 1994 to 2003, where he crossed paths with John Harbaugh.
Andrew Rogan, defensive quality control coach
Rogan’s first experience as a professional coach came at West Point as a coaching/staff/analytics intern before coming to Baltimore, where he spent the last five years in various roles. He now enters his sixth year with the Ravens and his first as a defensive quality control coach.
Miles Taylor, assistant defensive backs coach
Taylor is another NFL coach, after Los Angeles’ Minter. Before entering the NFL, Taylor spent from 2020 to 2024 as South Dakota’s defensive backs coach. Taylor was a four-year college player at Iowa, where he had one interception and 169 tackles before immediately beginning his coaching career, remaining with the Hawkeyes as a graduate assistant for two seasons.
PJ Volker, safeties coach
Volker is a highly respected college coach whose connection with head coach Jesse Minter began during their playing days. They played together at the College of Mount St. Joseph, where Volker was a two-time all-conference linebacker. From there, Volker began his coaching career as the running backs coach at Thiel College. He made stops at Thomas More as a linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator, doing the same at Indiana State and Georgia State, before returning to coach linebackers at Kennesaw State. Minter was his defensive coordinator at Indiana State and Georgia State. Volker once again coached linebackers at the Naval Academy starting in 2019, before also becoming defensive coordinator from 2023 to 2025. Volker is now building on his college success and joining close friend Minter in Baltimore for his first NFL job.