Sunday’s game between the Washington Football Team and Cleveland Browns will make NFL history. It will be the first time that there will be female coaches on both team’s sidelines and a female game official.

This Sunday when @WashingtonNFL visits the @Browns, @NFL history will be made with female coaches on both sidelines and a female official.

Callie Brownson, @Browns
Jennifer King, @WashingtonNFL
Sarah Thomas, @NFLOfficiating

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— NFL Football Operations (@NFLFootballOps) September 25, 2020

Jennifer King (Washington), Callie Brownson (Cleveland), and Sarah Thomas (NFL official) are the trio that will make history when the two teams play in Cleveland this weekend.

King was hired earlier this year in a full-time role by the Washington Football Team after serving as a part-time intern for the Carolina Panthers the last two seasons (her boss in Carolina, Ron Rivera, is now the head coach in D.C.). She is the first Black woman to coach in the NFL. She previously was the quality control coach at Dartmouth and was a seven-time All-American player in the Women’s Football Alliance.

Her charge is to work with the Washington Football Team’s running backs.

Brownson was also hired earlier this year by Cleveland, but she, too, has D.C.-area connections. For eight seasons, Brownson played for the D.C. Divas which is the District’s semi-professional women’s tackle football team. She grew up in Alexandria, played in Fairfax County youth football leagues, and attended George Mason University. Brownson has also won two gold medals as part of Team USA at the International Federation of American Football Women’s World Championships.

In 2015, Thomas became the NFL’s first full-time female game official and currently the only woman employed by the NFL to officiate games. King and Brownson are two of six female coaches currently employed in the NFL.