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Browns hire Clyde Simmons to coach defensive line; Robert Nunn out

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Browns defensive coaching staff shakeup continues, and it has claimed another assistant coach from last year's staff.

The team has fired defensive line coach Robert Nunn and replaced him with Clyde Simmons, a source tells cleveland.com. Alex Marvez of The Sporting News was the first to report Simmons' hiring.

Simmons, a former defensive lineman who spent eight seasons in Philadelphia between 1986 and 1993, comes over from the Los Angeles Rams, where he had been the assistant defensive line coach since 2012. He has spent the last three seasons working under new Browns defensive coordinator Gregg Williams.