Rex ryan defensive coordinator biography

American football coach and analyst (born )

American football player

Rex Ashley Ryan^[1] (born December 13, ) is an American former football coach and analyst.

Ryan was formerly the head coach of the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL), and also held various coaching positions with seven other NFL and college teams.

He and his fraternal twin brother Rob Ryan are sons of former head coach Buddy Ryan.

From a young age, Ryan aspired to follow in his father's footsteps and become a professional football coach.

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After spending the majority of his youth in Canada, he returned to the United States as a teenager where he attended college at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Upon graduating, Ryan spent the next 22 years serving as an assistant coach on different teams at both the college and professional level.

At the behest of their head coach Brian Billick, Ryan joined the Baltimore Ravens in and spent ten years there. In