Broncos are hiring former Colorado DC Robert Livingston as their defensive pass game coordinator

According to multiple reports, including ESPN’s lead league insider, Adam Schefter, the Denver Broncos are hiring former Colorado defensive coordinator Robert Livingston as their defensive pass game coordinator.

With Jim Leonhard becoming the Buffalo Bills’ defensive coordinator, the Denver Broncos had to replace a significant part of their defensive coaching staff this offseason. Well, they did not have to look far to find his replacement, as they hired Colorado’s defensive coordinator, Robert Livingston, to be their defensive pass game coordinator on Vance Joseph’s defensive coaching staff.

He is 40 years old and has been with Colorado since 2024, and previously, was on the Cincinnati Bengals coaching staff in various roles from 2012 through 2023. He started his coaching career at Furman as a safeties coach before joining the Bengals as a scout from 2012 through 2014. During that time, he overlapped with Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Vance Joseph, who was also with the Bengals at the time. He would be promoted from scout to defensive quality control coach in 2015, and a year later, in 2016, he was promoted once again to be the Bengals’ secondary coach. He held that role through 2023 before being hired by Colorado to be the defensive coordinator with Coach Prime in Colorado. Now, he reunites with Vance Joseph on the Denver Broncos staff as their defensive pass game coordinator.

He takes over a talented group of players that includes 2024 Defensive Player of the Year in cornerback Pat Surtain II, All-Pro safety Talanoa Hufanga, along with Riley Moss, Ja’Quan McMillian, Jahdae Barron, Brandon Jones, and others. It’s a talented group, but one that did not force enough turnovers last season. Head coach Sean Payton has put an emphasis on the defense creating more turnovers, so it’ll be up to Livingston and the rest of the Broncos defensive staff to achieve that.

Jim Leonhard was widely regarded as a top up-and-coming coach and earned a defensive coordinator job this offseason, so Livingston has some big shoes to replace in Denver. So far, the additions Sean Payton has made to his coaching staff have worked out, with many of them earning promotions around the league and with the team. Could Robert Livingston be the next coach to see his coaching career take off after spending time with the Broncos?