Year with Browns: 3rd

Year as NFL coach: 3rd

Key Notes

• Joined the Browns in 2022 following six seasons coaching on the collegiate and high school levels.
• In 2023, the Browns defense led the NFL in several categories including total defense (270.2 yards per game), passing defense (164.7 yards per game), third down percentage (67-of-230 for 29.1 percent) and first downs allowed (253). The team's 270.2 net yards allowed per game were the fewest allowed in the NFL since the 2014 Seahawks (267.1) and the fewest allowed by a Browns team since 1957. The Browns set a franchise record for sacks in a season with 48. Cleveland also led the league by forcing 112 punts, the third-most forced by an NFL team since 1970. Helped DE Myles Garrett be named the 2023 NFL Defensive Player of the Year as well as first team All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors.
• During first season with Cleveland, DE Myles Garrett was named to the Pro Bowl and the Associated Press All-Pro second team. Garrett also tied his own single-season team record with 16 sacks, tied for the second-most in the NFL in 2022.

Year with Browns: 3rd

Year as NFL coach: 3rd

Key Notes

• Joined the Browns in 2022 following six seasons coaching on the collegiate and high school levels.
• In 2023, the Browns defense led the NFL in several categories including total defense (270.2 yards per game), passing defense (164.7 yards per game), third down percentage (67-of-230 for 29.1 percent) and first downs allowed (253). The team's 270.2 net yards allowed per game were the fewest allowed in the NFL since the 2014 Seahawks (267.1) and the fewest allowed by a Browns team since 1957. The Browns set a franchise record for sacks in a season with 48. Cleveland also led the league by forcing 112 punts, the third-most forced by an NFL team since 1970. Helped DE Myles Garrett be named the 2023 NFL Defensive Player of the Year as well as first team All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors.
• During first season with Cleveland, DE Myles Garrett was named to the Pro Bowl and the Associated Press All-Pro second team. Garrett also tied his own single-season team record with 16 sacks, tied for the second-most in the NFL in 2022.
• Spent four seasons (2018-21) coaching at alma mater San Diego State, spending two seasons as a graduate assistant and two seasons as the defensive line coach. Helped SDSU to a school-record 12 wins in 2021. During his tenure, helped the Scarlet and Black rank among the NCAA leaders in total defense (third in 2020) and rushing defense (third in 2021 and seventh in 2020).
• Spent the 2017 season as a graduate assistant with Texas A&M-Kingsville, working closely with the linebackers.
• Began coaching career at Mission Hillis High School, working with the defensive line and tight ends.
• A four-year letterwinner at SDSU, playing in all 52 games, including four bowl games. Named SDSU's Defensive Lineman of the Year in 2013.
• Graduated from San Diego State with a degree in criminal justice.

Jordan Thomas' Coaching Background:

2016 Mission Hills High School (San Marcos, Calif.), assistant coach
2017 Texas A&M-Kingsville, graduate assistant

2018-19 San Diego State University, graduate assistant

2020-21 San Diego State University, defensive line coach

2022- Cleveland Browns, assistant defensive line coach