The Kansas City Chiefs have been the model of organizational consistency in terms of leadership while at the same time being the very model in the NFL sustained success. Perhaps the two go hand in hand, but the Baltimore Ravens are at least chipping away at some of that after hiring away a Chiefs defensive assistant on Wednesday.

The Ravens have officially convinced Donald D’Alesio, an assistant on Steve Spagnuolo’s staff who’s worked with the team’s defensive backs, to be their new defensive backs coach.

For D’Alesio, it’s a nice promotion to be able to be a positional coach at the young age of 33. The position also still gives him a chance to compete in a loaded AFC by joining another franchise trying to make an annual run at a Super Bowl title.

Per NFL reporter Tom Pelissero, D’Alesio is considered a “bright young coach” and clearly the Ravens like his pedigree. They should since he’s been working with one of the most exciting young positions on the Chiefs that’s continued to churn out new talent even after losing important players.

D’Alesio has coached the team’s safeties specifically in the last three years after serving as a general assistant in 2021 when he first joined the team.

After playing defensive back for Youngstown State, he joined the team as a defensive coaching assistant in 2015 and worked his way up to defensive coordinator before joining LSU as a defensive analyst in 2020. The Chiefs came calling in 2021 and now he’s a positional coach for a successful NFL team 10 years later.