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The full official release can be read below. Head coach Sherrone Moore has promoted JB Brown to special teams coordinator in order to replace Jay Harbaugh. Brown was Harbaugh’s graduate assistant and should provide some continuity to a unit that has been very, very good for the Wolverines in recent years. One move is official, per the University of Michigan, and another is reportedly happening very soon.
J.B. Brown was appointed special teams coordinator for the Michigan Football program by head coach Sherrone Moore, the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Head Football Coach. Brown has worked as a special teams analyst at U-M since 2021.
“Coach Brown has an outstanding mind for special teams and knows how we want to attack that phase of the game,” Moore stated. He has played a significant role in our special teams’ accomplishments, and he will support us in maintaining our position as leaders in this crucial area of the game. J.B., his wife Jessica, and their family will remain in Ann Arbor and be a part of the Michigan Football program, which pleases me.”
J.B. Brown was appointed special teams coordinator for the Michigan Football program by head coach Sherrone Moore, the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Head Football Coach. Brown has worked as a special teams analyst at U-M since 2021.
“Coach Brown has an outstanding mind for special teams and knows how we want to attack that phase of the game,” Moore stated. He has played a significant role in our special teams’ accomplishments, and he will support us in maintaining our position as leaders in this crucial area of the game. J.B., his wife Jessica, and their family will remain in Ann Arbor and be a part of the Michigan Football program, which pleases me.”
“I am excited for this opportunity and grateful to Coach Moore,” Brown stated. “I know how we want to run our special teams groups, and I will make sure we are an aggressive group capable of making plays that set up our offense and defense for success. I’ve been in meetings and at practice for the previous three seasons. I am forward to work with our guys more closely and to start preparing for an amazing round of spring practices.
For the previous three seasons (2021–2023), Brown has assisted in providing advice to Michigan’s special teams units. Using an opponent-adjusted efficiency rating metric called special teams FEI, the team has placed third, second, and 27th throughout that time. In special teams SP+, U-M has placed second, third, and eighth.in that identical section
Brown has contributed to the offensive plan’s development during the kicking and kick coverage stages. In addition to ranking first in the country in kickoff defense in 2021 (12.4 yards per return attempt), U-M also placed sixth in net punting in 2021 and 22nd in 2023. In 2022, the kickoff defensive unit rated 26th, and in 2023, it ranked 18th. Since 2021, opponents have only returned 20% of all punt attempts against U-M (28 returns on 140 punts). In the previous three seasons, the Wolverines have also stopped two field goals and four punts.
18 punts inside the opposing team’s 20-yard line were made by punter Tommy Doman in 2023, with at least one of those plays coming at the 12-yard line or deeper in six of Michigan’s final seven games. Kicker James Turner scored 119 points, the second-highest single-season total in kicker history, and set a record with 65 PATs. Brown collaborated with the team during Jake Moody’s two Lou Groza Award finals (2021–2022), which helped him become the program’s first champion and rewrite the record book for U-M kicking.
As a graduate assistant, Brown played college football for two seasons at the University of Kansas (2015–16) and two at the University of Houston (2017–18).
Brown played baseball at the University of Pacific and was an outstanding student at Alvin High School in Alvin, Texas. The New York Mets selected him in the 14th round of the 2010 MLB Draft, and he spent four years in the minor minors. He completed his communications degree while working as a graduate assistant at Pacific during the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons.
James Thomas Brown III and Jaxson are his two boys with wife Jessica.
