Chris Beatty didn’t know the number was zero.
Until the Chicago Bears promoted Thomas Brown to interim offensive coordinator on Nov. 12, the NFL didn’t have a single Black offensive coordinator. And after Brown was promoted again to interim head coach later that month following the firing of Matt Eberflus, the Bears gave Beatty the bump to take him from wide receivers coach to the league’s lone Black offensive coordinator.
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“That’s kind of … sad,” Beatty said recently. “I definitely didn’t think that we were at that stage right now.”
The Bears’ coaching staff wasn’t retained after the 2024 season, and Beatty was named the Las Vegas Raiders’ receivers coach. As a
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