Assistant Coach of the Year winner Matt Eberflus is the head coach of the National Football League’s Chicago Bears. From 2018 through 2021, he worked as the Indianapolis Colts’ defensive coordinator. Eberflus has also coached at Toledo and Missouri in addition to having previously worked as the linebacker coach for the Cleveland Browns and Dallas Cowboys. After a strong 2018, NBC Sports’ Peter King and Steve Serby of the New York Post both named Eberflus the 2018 Assistant Coach of the Year. Shaquille Leonard received the 2018 AP Defensive Rookie of the Year award while being coached by Eberflus.

Eberflus improved the Colts’ passing defence from No. 28 in 2017 (246.6 passing yards allowed per game) to No. 16 in 2018 (237.8 passing yards allowed per game). He did so by playing Pierre Desir, who had already been released by three NFL teams since being drafted in 2014, and Kenny Moore II, an undrafted free agent out of Valdosta State. More astonishingly, Eberflus pulled off these achievements with a Colts group that had the lowest defensive unit salary cap spend in the NFL.

Eberflus was appointed the 17th head coach of the Chicago Bears on January 27, 2022. On September 11, 2022, the Bears defeated the San Francisco 49ers by a score of 19-10 in a comeback victory, giving Eberflus his first victory as head coach. Eberflus has two daughters with his wife Kelly.