The Opening Drive 1/10: 2025 All-Pro Team Announced, and Building the Rest of the Coaching Staff Matters
Another notch on the resume of Myles Garrett and a reminder about the importance of more than the next head coach.
The NFL is starting to release their All-Pro winners as the Wildcard Weekend arrives. The AP will have their listing, the NFL’s players will have a list of their own self-voting, and outlets like PFF will also make their listing as well. The one most universally recognized is the AP and once again Myles Garrett is on the list. Nothing new, of course, but the resume is growing for Garrett in a way he is close to joining the league’s all-time greats.
He is now up to five First-Team All-Pro selections in the last six seasons and two other Second-Team All-Pro selections. The only seasons he was not selected as an All-Pro was during his rookie season and the 2019 season that ended abruptly due to the Mason Rudolph debacle. He’s a beacon of insane consistency. Add in that he will now win two of the last three Defensive Player of the Year Awards and you have a sure fire Hall-of-Fame future here.
Aaron Donald was an eight-time All-Pro and won three Defensive Player of the Year awards. J.J. Watt also won three DPOY awards. Lawrence Taylor was an eight-time First Team All-Pro and also won three DPOY awards. Reggie White had that eight seasons as a First Team All-Pro. Same for Bruce Smith. These are the names Garrett will be chasing at just 30 years old next season. Trying to set the modern standard. Really going to be fun to watch.
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As the Browns march forward with their coaching search they announced the next name they will bring in will be Jesse Minter. The Chargers defensive coordinator is an intriguing name with a dense background in creative defensive coaching. He’s only 42 years old currently and with that youth comes the concern about being able to build a proper staff, especially on the offensive side of the ball. But the more you learn about Minter, and I very highly suggest this profile done by Daniel Popper of The Athletic, you can see how well-connected he is through his family and previous experience in the industry. Some big names have helped him along his journey.
After two seasons at Notre Dame, Rick was hired as the head coach at the University of Cincinnati. He was slightly closer to the family, and over the next decade, Jesse had “all access” to a college program. These were his formative football years, and he was around an impressive group of Rick’s assistant coaches, from Rex Ryan to John Harbaugh to Wink Martindale to Mike Tomlin.
Tomlin was Rick’s defensive backs coach for two seasons, 1999 and 2000. Jesse was in high school in Yorktown, where he played receiver and defensive back, and gravitated to Tomlin, who was then 27 years old.
“He just had this presence about him,” Jesse says.
Jesse would come around for Cincinnati practices and work out with Tomlin’s DBs group.
“I feel like I’ve known him all his life,” Tomlin said last season before his Pittsburgh Steelers played Jesse’s Chargers in Week 3.
Minter’s father, Rick, has helped Jesse find his way through the course of his career but make no mistake, his prolonged existence in important roles, and those promotions are because he is very good at this.
I do not expect him to have a big issue finding appropriate staff on either side of the ball based on his heavy connections inside the industry. But, again, for several candidates, and especially the younger ones, this is a primary concern and something you have to consider with the next Browns coach. We will look to cover it as closely as possible.
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