Minter is back with the Ravens after serving as a defensive assistant in 2017-2018, assistant defensive backs coach in 2019 and defensive backs coach in 2020.
“I am truly honored to serve as the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens,” Minter said in a statement. “This is an organization whose values, culture and tradition of excellence reflect everything I believe about the game of football and how it should be played.”
After a year as Vanderbilt’s defensive coordinator, Minter was defensive coordinator under Jim Harbaugh at Michigan in 2022-2023 and with the Chargers in 2024-2025.
“I know he’s gonna be one heck of a head coach,” Chargers linebacker Daiyan Henley told The Times’ Benjamin Royer of Minter earlier this month. “I selfishly would love him to just stay right here and be my defensive coordinator throughout my career, but it’s not what he deserves. He deserves to be the head coach somewhere and lifting some people up.”
John Harbaugh was hired by the Ravens in 2008. He led the team to the Super Bowl championship after the 2012 season and was named the league’s coach of the year in 2019. The team has featured two-time MVP quarterback Lamar Jackson since 2018 and has won the division four times since then, but it has developed a reputation for coming up short in the postseason.
The Ravens fired Harbaugh less than two days after a missed field-goal attempt at the end of regulation against the Steelers prevented Baltimore from clinching the AFC North and advancing to the playoffs.
At 180-113, Harbaugh is the winningest coach in Ravens history. He went 13-11 in the postseason.
“This was an incredibly difficult decision, given the tremendous 18 years we have spent together and the profound respect I have for John as a coach and, most importantly, as a great man of integrity,” Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti said in a statement.
This story originally appeared on LA Times
