Another change to the Baltimore Ravens coaching staff has been made.
Per NFL Media's Tom Pelissero, Baltimore and long-time assistant Chris Hewitt reached a mutual agreement to part ways.
Hewitt, who spent the last season as the team's assistant head coach as well as their pass game coordinator on defense, had been with Baltimore since 2012. He was hired on as the team's assistant special teams coach that year and helped the Ravens go on to win Super Bowl XLVII.
Hewitt held that role through 2013 before switching to the secondary where he spent the next 10 years. He was promoted to the helm of the defensive backfield in 2015, and eventually added on the PGC title.
Countless quality defensive backs have played under Hewitt over the past decade. All-Pro Marlon Humphrey has only known Hewitt as his position coach, for example. He survived four different defensive coordinators from Dean Pees, Wink Martindale, Mike Macdonald, and Zach Orr. The latter played under Hewitt from 2014-16.
The Ravens aren't firing Hewitt for poor performance, rather moving on for a fresh start as Pelissero mentions. The same goes for Hewitt, who's 50 years old and has built quite a resume as a defensive coach. His relationship with head coach John Harbaugh goes back decades to when he played under Harbaugh at the University of Cincinnati in the mid-1990s.
Harbaugh will now look to replace years worth of wisdom and experience Hewitt takes with him to his next chapter. He already got started on that this week by hiring Chuck Pagano out of retirement as the team's senior secondary coach. Pagano was an assistant under Harbaugh in Baltimore from 2008-11 before he became the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts from 2012-17.
Baltimore has also extended the contract of offensive coordinator Todd Monken, who had been receiving interest in becoming a head coach this month.
