Since 2018, Mike Bloomgren's focus had been on building Rice football into a winner.
Following a run as an assistant at Stanford under David Shaw from 2011-2017, where he served in a variety of roles including as offensive coordinator and assistant head coach during one of the most successful runs in program history, Bloomgren landed his first head coaching opportunity leading the Owls.
It took Bloomgren four seasons before making a bowl game, but then made back-to-back bowl trips in 2022 and 2023 for the first time in nearly a decade for the program.
But after a 2-6 start this fall, Rice decided to take the program in a new direction.
Today, the Browns announced that Bloomgren was landing in Cleveland as their new offensive line coach.
The move marks a return to the NFL for Bloomgren, who, after stops at the Division II level as a coordinator and offensive line coach at Catawba (D-II - NC) and Delta State (D-II - MS), previously climbed the ladder with the Jets.
He started off in New York in an offensive quality control coach in 2007 before moving to offensive assistant and then assistant offensive coordinator by 2010.
In Cleveland, he inherits a veteran offensive line with four former Pro Bowlers and a young offensive tackle that has anchored both the right and left sides of the line in Dawand Jones.
He'll be linked with a new offensive coordinator, after head coach Kevin Stefanski decided recently to part ways with Ken Dorsey after just one season.
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