Five days ago, Joe Woods was in the Super Bowl as the ' defensive backs coach/pa sing game coordinator. On Friday, Woods officially agreed to become the ' new defensive coordinator. Woods will reportedly be bringing fellow former 49ers coach Chris Kiffin with him to Cleveland. Kiffin, , will be the team's new defensive line coach. Woods broke into coaching at Muskingum University, a Div. III program D'Onta Foreman Jersey in Ohio, in 1992. Woods would coach at six different schools over the next 11 years before becoming the ' defensive quality control coach in 2004, a position he served in for two seasons. Woods would spend eight seasons as the ' defensive backs coach before filling that same position in Denver from 2015-16, earning a Super Bowl ring following the ' victory over the in Super Bowl 50.Woods was promoted as the Broncos' defensive coordinator in 2017, a position he served in for two seasons before joining the 49ers' staff in 2019. During his one season in San Francisco, the 49ers went from 11th to first in the NFL in pa s defense, allowing an average of 169.2 pa sing yards per game during the regular season. In the playoffs, the 49ers recorded as many interceptions (7) as they did touchdown pa ses allowed while holding , and to an average of 261.3 pa sing yards per game. The 49ers' defense had mostly held Mahomes in check for the first 50 minutes of Super Bowl Jackrabbit Jenkins Jersey LIV before Mahomes led the on three consecutive scoring drives en route to a 31-20 victory. "It's good to be back in this role," Woods said on Friday, via the team's official website. "I felt like I learned a lot from my time in Denver. It's Brian Orakpo Jersey really about managing people, game-planning and how to call a game, so I feel like I'm more prepared now than I was then. "When you have pieces in place and with the additions we'll make in free agency and the draft, I feel like we can really get something accomplished here this next season."Woods has recent experience coaching against new Browns head coach Kyle Stefanski, as Stefanski was Minnesota's offensive coordinator during San Francisco's divisional round victory over the Vikings. Both Woods and Stefanski joined the Vikings' coaching staff in 2006 and would spend the next eight seasons together in Minnesota. "To be able to have somebody in there that I trust, that I know is a good coach is huge," Stefanski said of Woods, who said on Friday that the Browns will continue to employ a 4-3 defensive alignment. "Just sitting with him this past day and talking football, it just aligns with the vision with the type of defense we want to play. I think Matt Barkley Jersey we've got a really good defensive coordinator." Woods is also to coach against Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin, as the two spent two seasons together in Minnesota before Tomlin was hired by Pittsburgh to replace 2020 Hall of Fame inductee Bill Cowher in 2007. "I know (the Steelers are) a division rival," Woods said, "and I was on the other side of it my whole life because I grew up in Pittsburgh. But now, it's about busine s."The Browns have quickly after parting ways with one-and-done head coach Freddie Kitchens shortly after the conclusion of the 2019 season. Alex Van Pelt is the team's new offensive coordinator, while Andrew Berry will replace John Dorsey as the team's general manager. Berry, 32, has spent over a decade in the NFL, spending six years in the ' scouting department before being named the Browns' vice president of player personnel from 2016-18. He spent the 2019 season as the ' vice president of football operations. Berry, during his introductory pre s conference on Wednesday, detailed the Browns are looking for from their players moving forward. Tucker McCann Jersey "You probably will get sick of me saying it and Kevin saying it, but smart, tough and accountable," Berry said, via Cleveland.com's Terry Pluto. "That accountability is on the field, in the building and off the field. That really is our profile."