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Ben Johnson was named head coach of the Chicago Bears on Jan. 21, 2025. Johnson is the 18th full-time head coach in the franchise’s 106-year history, arriving in Chicago after leading one of the NFL’s most prolific offenses with the Detroit Lions.

Dennis Allen joins the Bears in 2025 to coordinate Chicago’s defense. Allen enters his 30^th season in the coaching profession after most recently serving as the head coach of the New Orleans Saints (2022-24).

Press Taylor enters his second season with Chicago after joining the Bears in 2025 as Pass Game Coordinator. Last season, Taylor helped lead a passing attack that featured QB Caleb Williams setting a franchise single-season record with 3,942 passing yards in the regular season, adding a 361-yard passing performance in the NFC Wild Card Round win over Green Bay, a single-game club record in the postseason. Chicago’s offense finished the regular season with the fewest giveaways in the NFL (11), and the second-most points scored off of takeaways in the league (104). Over the final 10 weeks of the regular season, Chicago amassed 109 points in the fourth quarter and OT, the most by any team in the NFL. The Bears culminated the regular season with 441 points scored, third-most in a single season in franchise history.

Richard Hightower enters his fourth season as the Chicago Bears special teams coordinator in 2025 and his fifth year overall in Chicago after previously serving as the club’s assistant special teams coach in 2016.