Jon Hoke returns to the Bears in 2023 to serve as the team's cornerbacks coach/passing game coordinator. Hoke enters the 2023 season with 42 years of coaching experience and 18 seasons in the NFL, most recently serving as the secondary coach of the Atlanta Falcons.
Hoke boasts 42 years of coaching experience, including 18 seasons in the NFL and spent the last two seasons as the Falcons' secondary coach. Hoke returns to the Bears after spending six seasons with the club as the defensive backs coach from 2009-14, a period in which the Bears defense tied for the fourth-most interceptions (111) and lead the league in interceptions returned for touchdowns (20).
Under Hoke, Bears cornerbacks Charles Tillman and Tim Jennings earned four Pro Bowl selections. Tillman was also named first-team All-Pro while Jennings was named second-team All-Pro in 2012.
Hoke also spent time with the Buccaneers (2016-18) as the defensive backs coach and served in the same role for the Texans from 2002-08. He began his longstanding coaching career in the college ranks at Dayton in 1982 as a volunteer assistant, earned a graduate assistant spot at North Carolina State in 1983 then took a full-time position as Bowling Green's defensive backs coach later that year.
After a year at San Diego State (1987-88) as the defensive backs/special teams coach, Hoke coached defensive backs at Kent State from 1989-93, and earned the defensive coordinator title in his final season. He then spent five seasons (1994098) as Missouri's defensive backs coach then served as Florida's defensive coordinator/secondary coach from 1999-2001. Hoke's most recent college coaching jobs include South Carolina (2015) and Maryland (2019-21).
As a player, Hoke was a four-year letterman at Ball State and earned all-MAC honors as a defensive back. He also had a brief stint in the NFL, playing 11 games for the Bears in 1980.
