Cort Braswell, UC Bearcats assistant, gets NFL Diversity Fellowship

University of Cincinnati Bearcats football co-defensive coordinator/linebackers 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.

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>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 a 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.

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>Before 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 University of Louisville football 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, Georgia, 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, Tennessee.

More UC Bearcats baseball honorsThree members of the Cincinnati Bearcats baseball team were selected to the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings All-Region teams, as announced on Tuesday, June 9.

>Sophomore infielder Quinton Coats and junior pitcher Nathan Taylor were both picked to the first team, while freshman catcher Enzo Infelise was a second-team selection. The last time Cincinnati had three All-Region honorees was 2008, when Dan Osterbrock and Josh Harrison made the first team and Cameron Satterwhite made the second team.

>As first-teamers, Coats and Taylor are now eligible for ABCA/Rawlings All-America honors. Those teams will be announced on Friday, June 12.

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>Coats was named the National College Baseball Writers’ Association (NCBWA) District 5 Player of the Year last Friday. The Olathe, Kansas, native turned in one of the best offensive seasons ever by a Bearcat, setting single-season school records in home runs (28) and total bases (183) while tying the single-season RBIs record (79). Coats hit .339 and slugged .738 and ended his season ranking among the Top 10 nationally in home runs, total bases and RBIs.

>Taylor is the first UC pitcher to earn All-Region honors since Osterbrock in 2008. He earned his third all-conference nod this season and left his mark on the Cincinnati record book, setting career records for wins (22) and strikeouts (276) while also breaking the single-season strikeout record this year (115). As of the end of Cincinnati’s season, Taylor ranked among the Top 20 pitchers nationally in strikeouts.

>It’s the second postseason honor in as many days for Infelise, who was named a Freshman All-American by the NCBWA on Monday. He led the Bearcats with a .374 batting average, hitting 10 home runs while adding 48 RBIs, 10 doubles, and 38 runs scored. Infelise collected 85 hits in his first college season, the most among all freshmen in the country as of the end of UC’s season. That figure also ranks tied for seventh in a season in school history and is the most hits by a Bearcat since Lance Durham’s record-setting 99-hit season in 2009.

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