Former Browns head coach Freddie Kitchens hired by North Carolina as assistant coach

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Former Cleveland Browns head coach Freddie Kitchens is headed to the College of North Carolina because the run recreation coordinator and tight ends coach, Tar Heels head soccer coach Mack Brown introduced Tuesday.

A senior soccer analyst final season at South Carolina, Kitchens has bounced round some after his lone season on the helm in Cleveland in 2019. The Browns went 6-10 that season and beat all three of their AFC North foes in the identical season for the primary time for the reason that division’s inception in 2002.

But it surely wasn’t sufficient to save lots of his job. Kitchens was changed by Kevin Stefanski.

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Kitchens served as tight ends coach for the New York Giants in 2020 and was a senior offensive assistant and interim offensive coordinator the next yr below head coach Joe Choose.

He joined the Browns in 2018 because the affiliate head coach and working backs coach below Hue Jackson, however was promoted to offensive coordinator in the course of the season after Jackson and offensive coordinator Todd Haley had been fired. Kitchens was given a lot of credit score for Baker Mayfield’s Rookie of the 12 months runner-up marketing campaign.

His teaching profession started within the school ranks. It took off in 1999 as a good ends and working again coach at Glenville State (W.Va.) after his collegiate profession at Alabama was completed. He joined Nick Saban’s LSU workers in 2000 earlier than stops at North Texas and Mississippi State.

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