- Hired as the Cardinals offensive coordinator in 2023 after coaching the past three seasons (2020-22) with Cleveland, including last year as quarterbacks coach.
- With the Browns last season, QB Jacoby Brissett started 11 games and completed 236-of-369 passes for 2,608 yards, 12 TDs, six interceptions and an 88.9 quarterback rating. Brissett's 63.9 completion percentage and 88.9 passer rating were both career highs. QB Deshaun Watson started the final six games of the season and threw for 1,102 yards, seven TDs and five interceptions. Both QBs combined to run for 418 yards and three TDs in 2022.
- Prior to Cleveland, he spent six seasons (2014-19) coaching with Minnesota. As the Vikings wide receivers coach in 2019, WR Stefon Diggs set a then career-high with 1,130 receiving yards and finished 4th in the league that season with a 17.9-yard average on 63 receptions.
- Working with Kirk Cousins in 2018, the Vikings QB set a team record for completions (425), threw for the third-most passing yards (4,298), had the second-highest completion percentage (70.1) and recorded the fourth-highest passer rating (99.7) by a Viking in team history.
Drew Petzing is in his first season with the Cardinals and 10th in the NFL after being hired as Arizona's offensive coordinator on 2/21/23. He came to the Cardinals after spending the past three years (2020-22) with Cleveland, including last season as the quarterbacks coach with the Browns.
Prior to working with Cleveland's quarterbacks in 2022, Petzing coached Browns tight ends for two years (2020-21) after spending six seasons (2014-19) as an assistant with the Minnesota Vikings. He was the Vikings wide receivers coach in 2019 after working as the assistant quarterbacks coach (2018) and assistant wide receivers coach (2014-17) with Minnesota. Petzing and Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon coached together in Minnesota for four seasons (2014-17).
With the Browns last season, QB Jacoby Brissett started 11 games and completed 236-of-369 passes for 2,608 yards, 12 TDs, six INTs and an 88.9 QB rating. Brissett's 63.9 completion percentage and 88.9 passer rating were both career highs. QB Deshaun Watson started the final six games of the season and threw for 1,102 yards, seven TDs and five INTs. Both QBs combined to run for 418 yards and three TDs in 2022.
As Cleveland's tight ends coach for two seasons, Petzing's group helped the Browns become the only team in the league in 2021 to have at least three different tight ends each record at least three TDs as TE David Njoku led the team with four TDs. They also helped the Browns lead the NFL in rushing average (5.09-yard avg.) in 2021, the highest rushing average for the team since 1966.
In 2020, the Browns had three tight ends record multiple TDs, led by TE Austin Hooper who tied for second on the team with four TDs. Rookie TE Harrison Bryant led all rookie tight ends with three receiving TDs while Njoku had two TD receptions. Cleveland finished 3rd in the league in rushing (148.4 ypg) in 2020, the best average for the Browns since 1978.
During his tenure with Minnesota, Petzing helped the Vikings win two NFC North division titles (2015 & 2017) while also qualifying for the postseason as a Wild Card team in 2019. The 2017 Vikings went 13-3 and advanced to the NFC Championship.
As the Vikings wide receivers coach in 2019, WR Stefon Diggs set a then career-high with 1,130 receiving yards, his second consecutive 1,000-yard season. He finished 4th in the league that season with a 17.9-yard average on 63 receptions. Working with Kirk Cousins in 2018, the Vikings QB set a team record for completions (425), threw for the third-most passing yards (4,298), had the second-highest completion percentage (70.1) and recorded the fourth-highest passer rating (99.7) by a Viking in team history. He became the first quarterback in NFL history to throw for at least 4,000 yards, at least 30 passing TDs, 10 or fewer INTs and complete at least 70% of his passes in a season. Â Â
As assistant wide receivers coach, Petzing helped develop WR Adam Thielen, who began his career as an undrafted rookie free agent. In 2017, Thielen made his first Pro Bowl and was a second-team All-Pro selection after finishing 5th in the NFL (2nd in NFC) with a then career-high 1,276 receiving yards on 91 receptions. Diggs reached 200 career catches in 40 games, the fastest in team history to that milestone (record has since been eclipsed by Justin Jefferson). In addition to working with wide receivers in his first season in Minnesota, Petzing also helped coach Vikings running backs in 2014. As a rookie, RB Jerick McKinnon tied for 5th in the NFL with a 4.8-yard average (min 100 carries). Â Â
He served as a graduate assistant at Boston College for two years (2010-11) after working as a volunteer assistant coach at Harvard in 2009. Petzing then worked for one season (2012) as the outside linebackers coach at Yale before spending the 2013 season with the Browns as a football operations intern where he assisted the offense.
As a player, Petzing spent his first two years (2005-06) at Middlebury College as a defensive back before injuries cut short his playing career. A Wellesley, MA native, Petzing then served as a student assistant the next two years before graduating in 2009 with a degree in Economics and minors in Math and Philosophy.
He and his wife, Louisa, have a daughter, Emilia.
