Justin Rudd joins the Bears in 2025 as senior director of coaching operations.
In his role, Rudd works directly with the head coach managing the football calendar and organizing the day-to-day operation of the team. He is the point of communication between the coaching staff and all supporting departments, and he manages the coaching budget, develops practice plans, builds practice schedules and oversees all coaching staff operations. Rudd also assists on the practice field during the week and the sideline on gameday.
Rudd arrives in Chicago after spending the last five seasons with the Dallas Cowboys, playing an instrumental role in football analytics and coaching operations elements. After joining the Cowboys in 2020 in a Video/Football Analytics capacity, spending three years in the specific role, Rudd was elevated to coaching operations manager/football analytics in 2023, a capacity he would hold for the following two seasons. Over his five seasons with the Cowboys, Dallas secured two NFC East Division titles (2021 and 2023), with an appearance in the NFC Divisional Round in 2022, and won at least 12 games on three occasions. Rudd aided a Cowboys unit that ranked No. 6 in the NFL in passing yards per game and No. 7 in the league in scrimmage yards per game (380.6) over the five-season span, doing so with five different starting quarterbacks.
Prior to serving on Dallas' staff, Rudd had two tenures with DVSport, Inc. (2006-11 and 2012-19), a premier software platform used by personnel across the football spectrum, first as operations/senior account manager, then as vice president of sales & marketing. Rudd's role also included direct interface and relations with coaching staffs and administrators across the NFL, CFL and NCAA, collaborating on reports, data, analytics and technology endeavors that connected analytics and coaching operations. Rudd also spent time as a key accounts manager for Digitiz, Inc. (2011-12), an emerging audio/video systems design and integration company, where he engineered custom technological updates for teams across the NFL and NCAA.
Rudd spent four years at Rutgers University (2003-06), serving as video coordinator/network administrator, where he led, developed and guided a 13-person team overseeing video operations for the Scarlet Knights football team. Prior to his time at Rutgers, Rudd, served as a quality control/video assistant at the University of Pittsburgh in 2002.
A native of Montclair, N.J., Rudd graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a degree in sport management and minors in political science and Italian in 2001, also working closely with the football program and sports broadcasting department. Following graduation, Rudd spent time as a quality control/video assistant with the Carolina Panthers (2001) and Scottish Claymores of NFL Europe.
Rudd and his wife, Amanda, have two children – Laurel and Joseph.
