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Matt Giordano enters his second season with the Bears in 2026.

Matt Giordano enters his second season with the Bears in 2026.

A nine-year NFL veteran, Giordano joined the Bears as Assistant Defensive Backs / Safeties Coach in 2025 after serving two seasons as a Defensive Assistant with the New Orleans Saints, primarily working with the secondary.

In 2025, Giordano aided a defense that led the NFL with 33 takeaways. Giordano's primary group, safeties, were led by team captain DB Kevin Byard, who led the NFL with seven interceptions during the regular season. Byard earned First-Team AP All-Pro honors as well as Pro Bowl honors for the third time in his NFL career. Byard was joined by DB Jaquan Brisker, as the duo started in all 17 regular season games and both of the Bears' postseason games. Byard and Brisker were the first safety tantum to each start every game of a season for the Bears since 2020 (S Tashaun Gipson Sr. and S Eddie Jackson).

Prior to entering the NFL coaching ranks in 2023 with New Orleans, Giordano spent one season as a volunteer assistant coach at Fresno State University (2022). Giordano entered the coaching ranks at his alma mater, Buchanan High School in Clovis, Calif., where, after initially joining the staff in 2015 as Defensive Coordinator, he was elevated to Head Coach in 2016. As head coach, he led the team to a 51-16 record across his six seasons at the helm.

Before his coaching tenure, Giordano played nine seasons in the NFL as a defensive back. A fourth-round selection (134th overall) by the Indianapolis Colts in the 2005 NFL Draft, Giordano appeared in 116 career games for the Colts (2005-08), Green Bay Packers (2009), New Orleans Saints (2010), Oakland Raiders (2011-12) and St. Louis Rams (2013), totaling 202 tackles, one sack, 11 interceptions, including two returned for touchdowns, 16 passes defensed, two forced fumbles, 52 special teams tackles and one coverage fumble recovery. Giordano also totaled seven postseason appearances over his playing career, including a World Championship in 2006 (Super Bowl XLI).

Giordano played two seasons at the University of California (2003-04), earning First-Team All-Pac-10 honors as a senior in 2004, after two seasons at Fresno City College (2002-03).

A native of Clovis, Calif., Giordano was inducted into the Fresno Athletic Hall of Fame in 2019. Giordano and his wife, Laura, have three children – Addison, Logan and Brooklyn.