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The Bears ranked in the top five in no less than nine different special teams categories combined over that three-year period. Chicago led the NFL in total return yards (6,570) and kickoff return yards (5,415), posted the second-best kickoff return average (25.1), ranked third in punt return defense (7.1) and produced the fifth-best punt return ...
Richard Hightower (born September 15, 1980) is an American football coach currently serving as special teams coordinator of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). [ 1 ] His father, Richard, Sr. was a diesel mechanic and his mother Carolyn, was a medical tech at a blood bank.
Cameron Achord (born February 4, 1987) is an American football coach who most recently was the special teams coordinator for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as an assistant special teams coach for the Patriots.
Morgan first coached as an assistant to the football team at Copperas Cove High School [2] before becoming a graduate assistant for Idaho in 2002. Starting in 2004, Morgan coached a plethora of positions, including offensive coordinator and special teams coordinator at Westfield High School , where he would coach until 2008.
On January 23, 2024, Waldron was officially hired by the Chicago Bears as their offensive coordinator under head coach Matt Eberflus, replacing Luke Getsy. [9] The Bears fired Waldron nine games into his tenure on November 12 after the team reached a 4–5 record midway through the season.
Thomas Brown (born May 15, 1986) is an American professional football coach and former running back who is the interim head coach for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). Brown played college football at Georgia and played professionally in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons and Cleveland Browns .
The Bears had three special teams TDs in 2017 (two punt return, one fake punt), tied with the Rams for the most in the NFL. Rookie PR Tarik Cohen averaged 9.4 yards per punt return in 2017 (ninth in the NFL) and had a 61-yard return for a TD while KR Deonte Thompson ranked second in the NFL in 2016 in kickoff return yards (804).
The Bears added six coaches from the NFL's Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship Program: Michael Bellamy II (assistant wide receivers/senior offensive analyst/special teams assistant, Howard), Stefon Wheeler (run game coordinator/offensive line coach, Yale), Angela Rowe (head flag football coach, Huntingdon College), Michael Bearden ...