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Browns add eight to coaching staff

The Sports Xchange

February 08, 2016 at 1:01 pm.

New Cleveland Browns head coach Hue Jackson announced eight additions to his coaching staff on Monday.

Rock Cartwright (offensive quality control), Louie Cioffi (defensive backs), Ken Delgado (assistant defensive line), Johnny Holland (inside linebackers), Cannon Matthews (assistant defensive backs), Robert Nunn (defensive line), Eric Sanders (defensive quality control) and Ryan Slowik (outside linebackers) have joined the staff.

Jackson was hired as head coach on Jan. 13 after the Browns fired Mike Pettine following their 3-13 season.

“When I look at the whole makeup of our staff, I am really excited about the men who have come here to Cleveland to help assist this organization be the best that it can be,” Jackson said in a statement. “I think when you look at our staff we have a very good mix of old and young, experience and inexperience, and we have the potential to keep growing. We are going to chase greatness together and that is what this is all about.”

As a running back, Cartwright appeared in 154 games during a 10-year NFL career. He played eight seasons (2002-09) with the Washington Redskins and two (2010-11) with Oakland. Cartwright was a training camp coaching intern with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2015.

Cioffi previously spent the 2013 season in the same role with the Browns. Cioffi has 21 years of NFL coaching experience and has worked with Browns defensive coordinator Ray Horton during 10 of those seasons. He spent the past two years as the defensive backs coach for the Tennessee Titans.

Delgado has spent the past 30 years coaching on the college level, where he has helped his teams to 15 postseason bowl games. He spent the past two seasons as the defensive ends coach at Western Kentucky.

As a coach, Holland has helped his teams win championships in the NFL, CFL and UFL. As a player, he played seven seasons as a linebacker with Green Bay and was named to the Packers’ Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Texas A&M Hall of Fame in 1993. Holland coached in the CFL the past three seasons (2013-15) and helped the Saskatchewan Roughriders capture the Grey Cup in 2013.

Matthews spent the 2013 season as a defensive coaching intern with Cleveland. He was the defensive quality control coach in Tennessee from 2014-15.

Nunn has 16 years of NFL coaching experience, including the past six seasons as defensive line coach with the New York Giants, where he helped the team win Super Bowl XLVI.

Sanders spent 2015 as a defensive assistant at Stanford. He helped the school to a 12-2 record, including a 45-16 victory in the Rose Bowl. Prior to Stanford, Sanders spent five seasons (2010-14) with the Oakland Raiders as a quality control coach, initially with the offense for three seasons and later the defense.

Slowik has coached in the NFL the last 11 years, including two seasons (2011-12) with Horton in Arizona. Slowik was the Jets’ assistant defensive line coach in 2015.