Press Taylor’s promotion to offensive coordinator is the biggest shift on Ben Johnson’s coaching staff after the Chicago Bears won the division and came within one play of reaching the NFC Championship Game.
The team announced Wednesday morning that Taylor has officially been elevated from passing game coordinator to replace Declan Doyle, who departed for the Baltimore Ravens and an offensive coordinator job that offers him a chance to call plays.
Taylor, 38, spent three seasons as the offensive coordinator of the Jacksonville Jaguars before joining Johnson’s staff.
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As expected, former Bears assistant coach Eric Studesville was named running backs coach. The 58-year-old joined the Bears as a quality control assistant in 1997 on Dave Wannstedt’s staff and spent four seasons with the team working with wide receivers and special teams. The Madison, Wis., native left for the New York Giants as a running backs coach and was with the Miami Dolphins the last nine seasons, overlapping there for two years with Johnson.
The Bears also announced Boston College offensive coordinator Will Lawing will be an offensive analyst. Lawing and Johnson were teammates at North Carolina, and Lawing has previously worked in the NFL with the Houston Texans and New England Patriots.
Isaiah Ford was hired as an offensive quality control assistant. A former wide receiver who was drafted in the seventh round by the Miami Dolphins in 2017 out of Virginia Tech. He played in 32 career games for the Dolphins and spent training camp in 2023 with the Bears before being placed on injured reserve.
The team did not name a passing game coordinator and it’s certainly possible at this point that the staff proceeds without one this season.
With Johnson overseeing the offense and calling the plays — and Taylor’s expertise in the passing game — it’s not necessarily a spot they would have to fill. With assistant head coach/wide receivers coach Antwaan Randle El, quarterbacks coach J.T. Barrett and even Lawing, the staff won’t be short on assistants to fulfill all tasks and provide ideas.
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