Who is Press Taylor? Meet the Bears' new offensive coordinator.

CHICAGO — The Chicago Bears officially promoted Press Taylor to offensive coordinator Wednesday.

Taylor spent the 2025 season as the team’s passing game coordinator. He will assume the role left vacant after former offensive coordinator Declan Doyle left to take the same job with the Baltimore Ravens.

Taylor has prior experience as an NFL offensive coordinator and gives the Bears some continuity, given that he already was on coach Ben Johnson’s staff. Here’s what to know about the team’s newest coordinator:

How did Press Taylor get here?

Taylor, 38, came to Chicago after spending three seasons (2022-24) as the Jacksonville Jaguars offensive coordinator. The Jaguars fired coach Doug Pederson after the 2024 season, leaving most of his assistants looking for new jobs.

Taylor landed with the Bears as passing game coordinator. In that role, he worked with Johnson, Doyle and the rest of the offensive staff to build a game plan for quarterback Caleb Williams and his targets.

What’s his coaching background?

An Oklahoma native, Taylor began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Tulsa from 2011-12. He worked on Chip Kelly’s staff with the Philadelphia Eagles as an offensive quality control coach from 2013-15.

The Eagles fired Kelly in 2015 and replaced him with Pederson, who kept Taylor on staff and promoted him to assistant quarterbacks coach. Taylor became the primary quarterbacks coach in 2018 and added passing game coordinator to his title in 2020.

When the Eagles fired Pederson after the 2020 season, Taylor went to work for former Eagles offensive coordinator Frank Reich, who had taken the head coaching job with the Indianapolis Colts. Taylor spent one season in Indianapolis in 2021 as a senior offensive assistant before Pederson landed the head coaching job in Jacksonville and hired Taylor as his offensive coordinator.

Which quarterbacks has he worked with?

When Taylor was the Eagles assistant quarterbacks coach in 2016-17, he worked primarily with Carson Wentz, who finished third in MVP voting in 2017. He also worked with Nick Foles, who led the Eagles to a Super Bowl title in the 2017 season after Wentz tore his ACL.

As the primary quarterbacks coach in Philadelphia from 2018-20, Taylor worked with Wentz, Foles and Jalen Hurts after the Eagles drafted Hurts in 2020. Taylor reconnected with Wentz during his lone season in Indianapolis, in which Wentz started all 17 games for the Colts.

As the offensive coordinator in Jacksonville, Taylor worked with 2021 No. 1 draft pick Trevor Lawrence, who went to the Pro Bowl in 2022. And Taylor already has a year of experience working with Williams in 2025.

Where did he come from?

Taylor is the son of Sherwood and Julie Taylor. Sherwood Taylor played safety for coach Barry Switzer at Oklahoma in the late 1970s and was a team captain for the 1979 Sooners.

They settled in Norman, Okla., and had four children — two boys and two girls. Eldest son Zac Taylor is the head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals. Sherwood keeps a tally of his boys’ head-to-head matchups on a trophy he keeps at home. Press currently leads 3-2-1 after the Bears’ wild 47-42 win in Cincinnati in November.

Both Taylor boys played quarterback at Norman High School. Press went on to win back-to-back junior college national championships at Butler Community College in Kansas in 2007 and 2008. He went 17-1 as a starter there. He then transferred to Marshall, where he served as a backup for two seasons.

Press Taylor and his wife, Brooklyn, have four children.

If Johnson calls plays, what does the offensive coordinator do?

Presumably, Johnson will continue to call plays on game days and will remain the guiding force behind the Bears offense. But his offensive coordinator takes on a big role in helping to design the offense and teaching all of its intricate aspects to the players.

Asked what he needed in an offensive coordinator a year ago during his introductory news conference, Johnson stressed that he needed someone who was detail-oriented and could take a deep dive into how best to attack the opposing defense each week.

“It’s going to be critical for me to find somebody that can organize and structure and set the table, particularly early in the week,” Johnson said then. “I have been around a number of guys that have called plays in the past, and I’ve seen the potential pitfalls that could arise as you’re approaching the entire football team and you can’t get to watching as much tape early in the week as you possibly could.

“The offensive coordinator position is going to have to be somebody that not only I trust but will be extremely detail-oriented, organized and structured to set the table and also be willing to work late nights.”

Moving forward, that will be Taylor’s job. Taylor did call plays for much of his time as the coordinator in Jacksonville, so he should have a good idea of what will make Johnson’s job easier on game days.

When Doyle was the coordinator, he watched the games from the coaches box. With Johnson on the sideline, he’ll probably want his offensive coordinator to continue being his eyes in the sky, although the Bears have plenty of time to figure out such logistics.

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