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Browns' Gregg Williams hires his son Blake as LB coach, adds Jerod Kruse for DBs

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Browns new defensive coordinator Gregg Williams has hired his son Blake Williams to coach linebackers, a league source told cleveland.com.

He's also added Jerod Kruse as assistants defensive backs coach.

The Browns have yet to announce any of the new assistants.

Blake Williams, a former defensive back from Princeton, was a coaching assistant with the Redskins in 2006-07 and a defensive assistant with the Jaguars in 2008. He went on to coach in New Orleans and then spent time working for his dad with the then-St. Louis Rams, now the Los Angeles Rams.