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’ve yet to discuss:
Christina DeRuyter, Chief of Staff
DeRuyter is a name closely associated with Minter throughout their football careers.
The daughter of Tim DeRutyer, a longtime college defensive coordinator, she has been around football her whole life. DeRuyter graduated from Texas A&M Aggie (Gig ‘Em) and got her official start working for the Aggies football department and broadcast team as a student. She worked on the recruiting and operations staff at Arizona, Texas Tech, Vanderbilt, and Michigan, where she worked under Jim Harbaugh alongside Minter when he arrived in 2022. She then followed Harbaugh and Minter to the Los Angeles Chargers as the director of football logistics. DeRuyter and her colleague John Wiedmeier won the AFC Travel Directors of the Year in 2024 with the Chargers for her help with the team’s operations and their travel schedule as they won 11 games in Harbaugh’s first year. She now follows Minter to Baltimore under a new title, but will seemingly have a similar role in operations regarding the team. Clearly, this is someone Minter trusts will help the team excel.
Lou Esposito, defensive line coach
Esposito is a 23-year veteran coach and now gets his first NFL job with the Baltimore Ravens. Just three years into his young career, Esposito became a head coach at Saint Joseph’s College , where he went on to win two Great Lakes Conference titles. He has 12 years of defensive line coaching experience, with 10 years in two stints at Western Michigan and, most recently, two years at Michigan in 2024 and 2025. Esposito will now work under Ravens new defensive coordinator and defensive line wizard, Anthony Weaver, as Weaver assists Minter with installing the defense.
Shawn Flaherty, assistant offensive line coach
Flaherty played offensive line at Towson, making this hire somewhat of a homecoming. He has been coaching his former 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, then an assistant offensive line coach. Flaherty then went to Atlanta under the same role and has spent his last three seasons there, where he worked with new Ravens offensive line coach Dwayne Ledford. Both are paired together again in Baltimore to fix one of last season’s weakest parts.
Prentice Gill, assistant wide receivers coach
Gill is staying in Baltimore after spending his last two seasons here as a coaching fellow. He’s now earned a full role as the assistant wide receivers coach under new wide receiver 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 a co-wide receivers coach at Arizona State. Gill has been noted as a locker-room favorite who brought energy to practice and the Ravens wideouts enjoyed working with.
Ben Koticwa, senior assistant special teams coach
Koticwa is an eight-year Army veteran who graduated from West Point while playing four years of linebacker there. After his years of service, Koticwa jumped into coaching, starting at USMA Prep School as a defensive coordinator before starting his NFL coaching career, which has spanned 18 years of special teams experience from 2007 to 2025, with a one-year intermission at Army as the director of player personnel.
Rick Minter, football analyst
Jesse Minter’s father, Rick Minter, has over 40 years of coaching experience and will now work with his son on the same staff for a ninth year. Most recently, Rick Minter spent two years at Michigan with the younger Minter, then two years in LA before continuing to follow his son to Baltimore. The elder coaching statesman spent nearly a decade as the University of Cincinnati’s head coach from 1994 to 2003, where he crossed paths with John Harbaugh.
Andrew Rogan, defensive quality control coach
Rogan’s first professional coaching experience came at West Point as a coaching/personnel/analytics intern before he came to Baltimore, where he’s spent the last five years in assorted 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 coaching fellow, following Minter from LA. Before entering the NFL, Taylor spent 2020 to 2024 as South Dakota’s defensive backs coach. Taylor was a four-year collegiate player at Iowa, where he had one interception and 169 tackles before immediately starting his coaching career, staying with the Hawkeyes as a graduate assistant for two seasons.
P.J. Volker, safeties coach
Volker is a highly respected college coach whose connection with head coach Jesse Minter started during their playing days. They played together at College of Mount St. Joseph, where Volker was a two-time All-Conference linebacker. From there, Volker started his coaching career as a running backs coach at Thiel College. He had stops at Thomas More as a linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator, doing the same at Indiana State and Georgia State, before coaching linebackers again 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 becoming defensive coordinator as well from 2023 to 2025. Volker now takes his collegiate success and joins his close friend Minter in Baltimore for his first NFL job.
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