The Bears formally announce Ben Johnson as their subsequent head coach

Ben Johnson will stay within the NFC North, opting to take a head teaching job with one of many Detroit Lions’ chief rivals.

The Chicago Bears formally introduced Johnson as their subsequent head coach on Tuesday.

While the phrases of the deal haven’t but been disclosed, the speculated “beginning determine” is $13 million per 12 months for the first-year coach, according to Pro Football Talk.

Johnson, 38, has been with the Lions in numerous roles since 2019, together with offensive high quality management coach, tight ends coach and passing recreation coordinator. He has served as Detroit’s offensive coordinator the previous three seasons (2022-24), with the Lions turning into one of many NFL’s greatest offenses underneath his tutelage. Detroit has completed within the prime 5 in whole factors and yards in every of the final three common seasons.

Johnson joins a Chicago crew coming off a 5-12 season, marking its fourth straight dropping 12 months. But Johnson may have an opportunity to mentor the most effective younger quarterbacks within the recreation, Caleb Williams, who the Bears chosen with the No. 1 total choose within the 2024 NFL Draft.

The Las Vegas Raiders and Jacksonville Jaguars additionally competed for Johnson’s providers, interviewing him in early January.

Before becoming a member of Detroit in 2019, Johnson, now a first-time NFL head coach, was a graduate assistant and later tight ends coach at Boston College (2009-11). He then held a number of teaching roles with the Miami Dolphins from 2012 to 2018: offensive assistant, assistant quarterbacks coach, tight ends coach, assistant broad receivers coach and broad receivers coach.

Johnson coached alongside Dan Campbell – who turned Detroit’s head coach in 2021 and retained Johnson – with the Dolphins from 2012 to 2015, with Campbell serving as tight ends coach till being promoted to move coach at interim in 2015.

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