The Baltimore Ravens announced their entire coaching staff under new head coach Jesse Minter on Thursday, confirming some of the team’s reported hires.
The Baltimore Beatdown has already covered most of these hires, and links to those articles can be found in our 2026 Ravens coaching tracker. Here are the other new coaches we haven’t discussed yet:
Christine De Ruyter, Chief of Staff
The name Druitt is closely associated with Minter’s entire football career. Her father, Tim Droutier, is a longtime college defensive coordinator who has been around football her entire life. DeRuyter graduated from the Texas A&M Aggies (Gig ‘Em) and officially started working for the Aggies football department and broadcast team as a student. She has worked in recruiting and operations at Arizona State, Texas Tech, Vanderbilt and Michigan State, and worked under Jim Harbaugh, who arrived at Minter in 2022. She then followed Jim Harbaugh and Minter to the Los Angeles Chargers as director of football logistics. DeRuyter and her colleague John Wiedmeier won the 2024 AFC Travel Director of the Year Award with the Chargers for her help with team operations and travel arrangements, helping the team win 11 games in Harbaugh’s first year. She now follows Minter to Baltimore under a new title but appears to have a similar role in team operations. Minter clearly believes he will help the team excel.
Lou Esposito, defensive line coach
Esposito is a 23-year veteran coach who has landed his first NFL job with the Baltimore Ravens. Esposito became the head coach at St. Joseph’s Academy just three years into his young career, where he won two Great Lakes Conference championships. He has 12 years of defensive line coaching experience, including 10 years at Western Michigan twice, most recently for two years at Michigan in 2024 and 2025. Esposito will now work under new Ravens defensive coordinator and defensive line wizard Anthony Weaver, who assists Minter in setting up the defense.
Shawn Flaherty, assistant offensive line coach
Flaherty played offensive line at Towson, which makes the hire a bit of a homecoming. He has coached his former position group for nine years. He first spent two years as a graduate assistant at North Carolina State before moving to the Miami Dolphins as an analyst and then assistant offensive line coach. Flaherty then moved on to Atlanta in the same role, where he spent the final three seasons, where he worked with new Ravens offensive line coach Dwayne Ledford. The two paired up again in Baltimore to repair one of the weakest parts of last season.
Prentice Gill, assistant wide receivers coach
Gill will remain in Baltimore after spending his final two seasons as coach there. Now, he officially serves as assistant wide receivers coach under new wide receivers coach Keary Colbert. Gill and Colbert worked together at USC from 2016 to 2018, with Gill serving as a graduate assistant. Gill then spent one season as an offensive analyst at Oregon State before spending four years as wide receivers coach at Arizona State. Gill is considered a favorite in the locker room, bringing energy to practices and the Ravens’ wideouts enjoy working with him.
Ben Koticwa, senior assistant special teams coach
Kotiva is an eight-year Army veteran and a graduate of West Point, where he was a linebacker for four years. After years of service, Kotiva began a career in coaching, first as defensive coordinator at USMA Preparatory School and then began an NFL coaching career where he spent 18 years on special teams from 2007 to 2025, including one year at 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 be in his ninth year on the same team as his son. Most recently, Rick Minter spent two years with the younger Minter in Michigan and then two more in Los Angeles before continuing on to follow his son to Baltimore. The elder coaching statesman served as head coach at the University of Cincinnati for nearly a decade from 1994 to 2003, during which time he crossed paths with John Harbaugh.
Andrew Rogan, Defensive Quality Control Coach
Rogan’s first professional coaching experience was as a coaching/personnel/analytics intern at West Point before coming to Baltimore, where he has served in a variety of roles over the past five years. He is now entering his sixth year with the Ravens and his first as the defensive quality control coach.
Myles Taylor, assistant defensive backs coach
Taylor is another NFL coach after Los Angeles Minter. Prior to entering the NFL, Taylor served as the defensive backs coach at South Dakota State from 2020 to 2024. Taylor played four years at Iowa, recording one interception and 169 tackles, and immediately began his coaching career as a graduate assistant with the Hawkeyes for two seasons.
PJ Volker, safeties coach
Walker is a well-respected college coach whose connection with head coach Jesse Minter began during their playing days. They played together at Mount St. Joseph College, where Walker was a two-time all-conference guard. From there, Walker began his coaching career as the running backs coach at Teal College. He served as linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator at Thomas More, did the same at Indiana State and Georgia State, and then again as linebackers coach at Kennesaw State. Minter was his defensive coordinator at Indiana State and Georgia State. Walker coached linebackers again at the Naval Academy starting in 2019 and served as defensive coordinator from 2023 to 2025. Walker is now taking his college success and starting his first NFL job with his close friend Minter in Baltimore.