TicketsCINCINNATI – Cincinnati football assistant coach Cortney Braswell has been selected to participate in the NFL’s Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship with the Cleveland Browns.
The Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship is designed as a vocational tool to increase the number of full-time NFL minority coaches. The program's objective is to use NFL clubs' offseason workout programs and minicamps to give talented coaches opportunities to observe, participate, gain experience and ultimately gain a full-time NFL coaching position. Applicants for the fellowship must either have NFL experience or coaching experience at the high school, college or other league level.
Braswell is entering his fourth season with Cincinnati and is in his second season as the program’s co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. In 2025, he mentored First Team All-Big 12 honoree Jake Golday to a 105-tackle season and an eventual second-round NFL Draft selection by the Minnesota Vikings. Braswell also coached veteran linebacker Jonathan Thompson to another fine season in which he led UC with 8.5 tackles for loss.
In 2024 as the inside linebackers coach, Braswell helped Golday and Jared Bartlett to honorable mention all-conference seasons and tutored Simeon Coleman to a season worthy of Freshman All-America accolades.
Prior to joining the Bearcats, Braswell spent two seasons coaching inside linebackers at Army following a year coaching outside linebackers at Appalachian State. He was also a defensive quality control coach on Scott Satterfield’s first Louisville team that improved by six wins.
In 2020, Braswell coached outside linebackers for the Mountaineers, helping lead the defensive unit to a No. 18 ranking nationally and a 9-3 mark. App State also won the Myrtle Beach Bowl.
He was the head coach at Ridgeland High School in his hometown of Rossville, Ga., in 2018, following a two-year stint as the head coach at Chattanooga Central High School in 2016 and 2017. He led each of his teams to the state playoffs.
Braswell began his coaching career in 2009 and was a two-time all-state running back at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tenn.