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Thomas Brown is in his first season with the Bears, elevating to the role of interim head coach after serving as offensive coordinator and offensive passing game coordinator to start the season. Brown comes to Chicago with four seasons of NFL coaching experience and nine at the collegiate level.

After beginning his NFL coaching career with the Bears in 2008, Washington returns to Chicago as the team's defensive coordinator after spending the previous four seasons in Buffalo (2020-23). In 2023, Washington was promoted to assistant head coach/defensive line coach. He originally joined the Bills in 2020 as their defensive line coach before he was promoted to the senior defensive assistant/defensive line coach for the 2022 season.

Richard Hightower enters his third season as the Chicago Bears special teams coordinator in 2024 and his fourth year overall in Chicago after previously serving as the club’s assistant special teams coach in 2016.