The rise in prominence of offensive play-callers being favored for head coaching jobs has led to an interesting subsection of the offensive coordinator role, where many of them don’t call their own plays. After all, if a head coach got where they are through their skills as a play-caller, why would they risk losing their primary asset?
One of those now many head coaches is the Cleveland Browns’ Kevin Stefanski, who has retained that task after earning respect in that role as the Minnesota Vikings’ offensive coordinator. That’s left the team’s actual offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt, assigned to other tasks.