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Nick Charlton enters his first season with Washington as an Offensive Assistant.

Prior to joining Washington, Charlton coached with the Cleveland Browns in multiple roles, serving as an offensive assistant and run game specialist for the 2024 season and as pass game specialist in 2025.

During his time in Cleveland, Charlton facilitated the rookie quarterback development program, while assisting with the tight ends. While working with the tight ends, Charlton coached Harold Fannin who led all rookie tight ends in receiving categories.

From 2022-23, Charlton was the assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Connecticut. In 2022, Charlton helped lead UConn to the largest turnaround in FBS football, making a bowl game for the first time in seven years. The offense also recorded the largest rushing yardage turnaround in the country.

Charlton served as the head coach for the University of Maine from 2019-2021. He was the youngest head coach in all of D1 football at the time. He also served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the program in 2018, the special teams coordinator from 2016-17 and the wide receivers coach from 2015-16.

During his time as the offensive coordinator and head coach, Maine went on to have 16 wins, the second most in the CAA during the two-year stretch. As offensive coordinator, he led an offense that helped win the outright 2018 CAA Title and advanced to the NCAA FCS Playoffs Final Four for the first time in school history.

Charlton served on the coaching staff of his alma mater Boston College as an offensive graduate assistant from 2013-14, recruiting and special teams graduate assistant in 2012 and a football coaching intern in 2011.

A native of Salem, Massachusetts, Charlton earned his bachelor's degree at Boston College in 2011 and earned his master's from the Woods College of Advanced Studies in 2013. He and his wife, Maria, have three children: Madeline, Scott and Lily.