As one of the youngest on the NFL head coach’s list, Ben Johnson is already charming his way into the hearts of Bears fans.
Since 2000, according to an AP tally, eight of the league's 19 head coaches — 42% — who were fired after their first full season were Black. In that same span, 31 of 173 new NFL head coaches ...
“Now that you mention it,” McLaurin said, “I’ve never had a Black head coach in high school, college or the NFL. Coordinators and position coaches only.” McLaurin, like the majority of ...
It was as meaningful as it was stunning, given that the NFL’s first Black Super Bowl–winning head coach, Tony Dungy, accomplished that feat nearly two decades earlier. Dungy, to this day ...
Aside from his day job as an actor, Brown and his wife, actress Ryan Michelle Bathé, co-host a podcast, We Don’t Always Agree ...
The Raiders franchise have had their share of well know head coaches. The Silver and Black have also always given ...
The HBCU embrace of pro coaches was heightened by the splash Deion Sanders – Coach Prime as he likes to be known – made at Jackson State after a 14-year Hall of Fame career in the NFL and nine years ...
Off the field, Johnson has been making his presence known in Chicago, including most recently with an appearance at the ...
George becomes the third Black HBCU head coach to get an FBS job, joining Willie Jeffries in 1979 and Deion Sanders in 2023.