Bears Complete Interviews With Joe Schoen & Bran Daboll

The Chicago Bears announced Sunday that they’ve completed Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll and assistant GM Joe Schoen.

Head Coach Interviews:

• Bills DC Leslie Frazier (Requested)
• Former Eagles HC Doug Pederson (Interviewed)
• Bills OC Brian Daboll (Interviewed)
• Buccaneers OC Byron Leftwich (Requested)
• Buccaneers DC Todd Bowles (Requested)
• Packers OC Nathaniel Hackett (Interviewed)
• Colts DC Matt Eberflus (Requested)
• Cowboys DC Dan Quinn (Requested)
• Former Dolphins HC Brian Flores (Interviewed)
• Former Lions HC Jim Caldwell (Interviewed)

GM Interviews:

• Colts director of college scouting Morocco Brown (Requested)
• Browns VP of Player Personnel Glenn Cook (Interviewed)
• Browns VP of football operations Kwesi Adofo-Mensah (Interviewed)
• Colts assistant GM Ed Dodds (Requested)
• Saints’ assistant GM Jeff Ireland (Interviewed)
• 49ers director of player personnel Ran Carthon (Requested)
• Former Texans GM Rick Smith
• Bills assistant GM Joe Schoen (Interviewed)
• Steelers VP Omar Khan (Requested)
• Patriots executive consultant Eliot Wolf (Requested)
• Bears assistant director of player personnel Champ Kelly (Interviewed)
• Chargers Director of Player Personnel JoJo Wooden (Requested)
• Titans director of player personnel Monti Ossenfort (Interviewed)
• Dolphins senior personnel executive Reggie McKenzie (Requested)

Schoen originally interned with the Panthers in their ticket office before serving as a scouting assistant in 2001. From there, he was promoted Southeast and Southwest scout before joining the Dolphins as a national scout.

Miami promoted Schoen to director of player personnel in 2014 and he spent four years in the role before the Bills hired him as their assistant GM in 2017.

Daboll, 46, began his NFL coaching career in 1997 with Williams & Mary. He spent a few years at Michigan State before being hired by the Patriots in 2000 as a defensive coaching assistant.

Daboll worked his way up to WRs coach before departing for a job with the Jets and eventually landing the offensive coordinator job in 2009. After short stints with the Browns, Dolphins, Chiefs and Patriots, Alabama hired him as their offensive coordinator.

From there, Daboll joined the Bills as their offensive coordinator for the 2018 season. He was assistant coach of the year in 2020. 

In 2021, the Bills’ offense ranked No. 5 in yards, No. 3 in points, No. 6 in rushing yards and No. 9 in passing yards.