Ben Bloom is in his 16th year coaching in the NFL and his first season with the Titans. He was hired by Tennessee in 2024 as outside linebackers coach after spending the previous four campaigns with the Cleveland Browns.

During his most recent stint with the Browns, Bloom served as senior defensive assistant in 2020, run game coordinator in 2021 and 2022, and defensive line coach in 2023. He broke into the NFL with the Browns from 2009 to 2010 and then worked nine seasons on the Dallas Cowboys staff (2011-19) before heading back to Cleveland.

In 2023, Bloom worked with Browns defensive end Myles Garrett, who was named the AP Defensive Player of the Year after leading the Browns and tying for seventh in the NFL with 14 sacks. As a unit, the Browns led the NFL in total defense (270.2 opponent yards per game), passing defense (164.7) and third-down defense (29.1 percent).

Garrett was named to the Pro Bowl every season from 2020 to 2023 and was named to the AP All-Pro first team in 2020, 2021 and 2023. He garnered second-team honors in 2022. His 16 sacks in 2021 established the franchise record, and he matched the mark during the following campaign.

In 2021, the Browns finished fifth in the NFL in total defense, allowing 311.5 yards per contest. It was the third time since 1970 the team finished in the top-five and the club's highest finish since 1987.

In 2020, the Browns finished ninth in the league in run defense (110.8 opponent rushing yards per game), a dramatic improvement from 30th place in 2019.

Bloom was the linebackers coach for the Cowboys in his final two seasons with the organization (2018-19) and was instrumental in a pair of young standouts earning Pro Bowl honors. In 2018, he helped develop first-rounder Leighton Vander Esch, who became the first rookie linebacker in Cowboys history to be named to the Pro Bowl after leading the defense with a franchise-rookie-record 176 tackles. Vander Esch added second-team AP All-Pro honors. Then, in 2019, linebacker Jaylon Smith was selected to his first career Pro Bowl after leading Dallas with a career-high 142 tackles.

In 2016 and 2017, Bloom served on the Cowboys staff as the club's assistant coach/special projects. He advised the head coach on the game plan, personnel group strategies, film and statistical analysis, game management and situational football strategy.

Coaching defensive ends in 2015, Bloom helped DeMarcus Lawrence pace the Cowboys with eight sacks while finishing second on the defense with 31 pressures. Along with Greg Hardy's six sacks, the pass rushing duo accounted for 14 of the club's 31 sacks on the year.

With Bloom working as assistant defensive line/defensive ends coach for the Cowboys in 2014, Jeremy Mincey led the club with six sacks and 39 quarterback pressures.

Bloom initially joined the Cowboys staff in 2011 as defensive quality control/assistant linebackers coach, working alongside linebackers coach Matt Eberflus. He served in that capacity through 2013. DeMarcus Ware and Anthony Spencer earned Pro Bowl berths in 2012 with 11.5 and 11.0 sacks, respectively. Ware also garnered Pro Bowl and first-team All-Pro recognition in 2011 and second-team All-Pro honors in 2012.

In 2009, Bloom's first season with the Browns, he was an assistant in team operations and quality control. He then moved to a defensive assistant role in 2010.

Prior to entering the NFL, Bloom spent four years in the college coaching ranks, lastly as the assistant defensive line coach at Harvard University in 2008. That followed three years (2005-07) as defensive line/graduate assistant at Tufts University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history in 2005 and master's in education in 2008.

A native of Wellesley, Mass., Bloom was a three-year letter winner on the Tufts offensive line.

He and his wife, Eliot, have a son, Bern, and two daughters, Georgia and Edie.

BEN BLOOM'S COACHING TIMELINE

2024: Outside Linebackers – Tennessee Titans
2023: Defensive Line – Cleveland Browns
2021-22: Run Game Coordinator – Cleveland Browns
2020: Senior Defensive Assistant – Cleveland Browns
2018-19: Linebackers – Dallas Cowboys
2016-17: Assistant Coach/Special Projects – Dallas Cowboys
2015: Defensive Ends – Dallas Cowboys
2014: Assistant Defensive Line/Defensive Ends – Dallas Cowboys
2011-13: Defensive Quality Control/Assistant Linebackers – Dallas Cowboys
2010: Defensive Quality Control – Cleveland Browns
2009: Team Operations Assistant/Quality Control Coach – Cleveland Browns
2008: Assistant Defensive Line – Harvard University
2005-07: Defensive Line/Graduate Assistant – Tufts University