Bengals finalize coaching staff
The Cincinnati Bengals today finalized their coaching staff for the 2025 season with the hirings of Sean Desai as senior defensive assistant and Mike Moon as defensive assistant. The team also promoted Jordan Salkin to assistant wide receivers coach.
Desai comes to Cincinnati from the L.A. Rams, where he spent the 2024 season as senior defensive assistant. He previously served as defensive coordinator for Philadelphia in 2023 and associate head coach/defensive assistant for Seattle in ’22. He broke into NFL coaching in 2013 with Chicago, where he spent nine seasons in various coaching roles, including defensive coordinator in ’21.
Prior to his time with the Bears, Desai spent seven years (2007-12) in the collegiate ranks, working both in coaching and administrative capacities. He was on Temple University’s coaching staff from 2007-10, served as assistant director of football operations at the University of Miami (Fla.) in ’11, and was running backs coach/special teams coordinator at Boston College in ’12.
Moon spent the past four seasons at the University of Notre Dame, where he served as a defensive graduate assistant (2021-22), defensive analyst (’23) and senior defensive analyst (’24). He previously was on the coaching staff at Old Dominion University, holding the titles of defensive quality control coach (2017) and defensive graduate assistant (’18-20).
Salkin served as an offensive assistant in his first season on the Bengals’ staff in 2024.
Here is a look at Cincinnati’s 2025 coaching staff:
HEAD COACH: Zac Taylor.
ASSISTANT COACHES:
Joey Boese (director of player performance/head strength and conditioning)
Charles Burks (secondary/cornerbacks)
James Casey (tight ends)
Sean Desai (senior defensive assistant)
Al Golden (defensive coordinator)
Justin Hill (running backs)
Mike Hodges (linebackers)
Ben Jacobs (assistant special teams)
Fredi Knighten (assistant quarterbacks)
Jordan Kovacs (secondary/safeties)
Brad Kragthorpe (quarterbacks)
Michael McCarthy (assistant offensive line)
Jerry Montgomery (defensive line/run game coordinator)
Mike Moon (defensive assistant)
Scott Peters (offensive line)
Dan Pitcher (offensive coordinator)
Justin Rascati (pass game coordinator)
Ronnie Regula (defensive assistant)
Jordan Salkin (assistant wide receivers)
Darrin Simmons (assistant head coach/special teams coordinator)
Diamond Simmons (assistant strength and conditioning)
Garrett Swanson (assistant strength and conditioning)
Troy Walters (wide receivers).
STAFF: Doug Rosfeld (chief of coaching staff).