{"id":267310,"date":"2026-02-27T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=267310"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:48:44","slug":"broncos-add-robert-livingston-to-defensive-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2026\/02\/27\/broncos-add-robert-livingston-to-defensive-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos Add Robert Livingston To Defensive Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Jim Leonhard leaving the Denver Broncos to become the defensive coordinator for the Buffalo Bills<\/a>, the team is filling the defensive pass game coordinator role by bringing in Robert Livingston, another coach with collegiate and professional coaching experience. Here\u2019s more information about Livingston\u2019s coaching resume.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Furman (2010)<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Livingston is a native of Hendersonville, North Carolina, and played safety at the College of William and Mary from 2007 to 2009. Shortly after his playing career ended, Furman hired Livingston to be a safeties coach.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vanderbilt (2011)<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

After one short season with Furman, Livingston joined Vanderbilt as a defensive quality control coach under James Franklin. In his lone season with Vanderbilt, Livingston worked with Bob Shoop and Brent Pry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vanderbilt ran a 4-3 base defense while Livingston was on staff and finished 6-7, but still qualified for the 2011 Liberty Bowl, which they lost 31-24 to Cincinnati.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cincinnati Bengals (2012-2023)<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Livingston\u2019s first shot at working in the NFL came with the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>, where he was a scout from 2012 to 2014. The Bengals promoted Livingston to being the team’s defensive quality control and special teams assistant the following season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bengals promoted Livingston again in 2016, elevating him to secondary and safeties coach. Livingston contributed to the Bengals’ 2021 team, which posted a 10-7 record and clinched first place in the AFC North for the first time since 2015.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In that same season, the organization also reached the Super Bowl for the first time since 1988, despite losing 23-20 to the Los Angeles Rams<\/a>. Livingston played a major role in helping the Bengals rank fifth in rushing defense.<\/p>\n

Colorado (2024-2025)<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

After more than 10 years away from college football, Livingston decided to join Colorado\u2019s staff to be the team’s defensive coordinator under Deion Sanders<\/a>. During his first season with the Buffaloes, he coached Heisman trophy winner and two-way player Travis Hunter<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The team was 9-4 and made the 2024 Valero Alamo Bowl, which they lost 36-14 to BYU. Livingston’s final season at Colorado proved rough as the team finished 3-9 and second-to-last in the Big 12.<\/span><\/p>\n

Livingston won\u2019t have to move far, as he\u2019s staying in Colorado, but will now be about 30 minutes southeast of Boulder to coach alongside Vance Joseph<\/a>. Livingston has a chance to help the Broncos’ defense perform even better than it did in 2025. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Denver Broncos added another coach to their staff, but this time the move was made in hopes of helping the defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5728,"featured_media":267353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2337,34237,32476,1489],"class_list":["post-267310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broncos","tag-deion-sanders","tag-robert-livingston","tag-travis-hunter","tag-vance-joseph"],"modified_by":"Sue Levine","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5728"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267352,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267310\/revisions\/267352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}