2017 Ravens coaching interns

The Baltimore Ravens announced Saturday the addition of six training camp intern coaches who are working with the team through the 2017 Bill Walsh Fellowship Program.

The program’s objective is to utilize NFL training camps to provide minority coaches with opportunities to observe, participate, gain experience and, ultimately, earn a full-time NFL coaching position.

This year’s class is comprised of former Ravens defenders Corey Ivy and Adalius Thomas, Calvert Hall (Baltimore) High School head coach Don Davis, Tulane assistant head coach/offensive line coach Alex Atkins, Rutgers recruiting assistant Matt Hewitt and former University of Pittsburgh defensive line coach Tom Sims.

Ivy spent four seasons (2006-09) with the Ravens as a cornerback, recording 116 tackles, 7.5 sacks and two interceptions. He will help coach the defensive backs.

Thomas spent 10 seasons (2000-09) in the NFL, seven of which were in Baltimore. The former outside linebacker earned two Pro Bowl honors (2003 and 2006), tallying 436 tackles, 38.5 sacks and six interceptions as a Raven. The Alabama native will be working with the outside linebackers.

Davis has over 15 years of coaching experience at the high school level and enters his sixth season at the helm of Calvert Hall’s squad. Throughout his coaching career, he has twice been named ‘Ravens Coach of the Week,’ was tabbed the 2006 Baltimore Touchdown Club Coach of the Year and has led a pair of football clinics in South Korea. Davis will be working with the Ravens’ offense.

Atkins enters his second season at Tulane University, and he is working with Baltimore’s offensive line. During the 2016 campaign, he helped orchestrate a Green Wave offense that ranked fourth in the American Athletic Conference in yards per rush (4.6) and rushing yards per game (228.1).

Hewitt is the younger brother of Baltimore’s secondary coach Chris Hewitt. The New Jersey native joined Rutgers’ recruiting staff in 2016 and will serve his fellowship working with the Ravens’ linebackers.

After a successful collegiate playing career at Pitt, Sims began coaching at Western Kentucky in 1997 under then-head coach Jack Harbaugh, who is Ravens head coach John Harbaugh’s father. The former defensive tackle was a sixth-round draft pick by Kansas City in 1990 and spent six seasons (1990-96) playing in the NFL for the Chiefs and Indianapolis Colts. Sims will work with Baltimore’s defensive linemen.