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Ben Johnson is coming in as the EVEN odds favorite to be named the next Jacksonville Jaguars head coach.
Johnson, a former walk-on quarterback at UNC, currently serves as the offensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). His NFL coaching career began as an assistant with the Miami Dolphins in 2012, coaching quarterbacks, tight ends, and wide receivers.
Johnson later joined the Lions in 2019, rising to offensive coordinator in 2022 and leading the team to two top-five offenses.
The Jaguars fired their head coach Doug Pederson on Monday, a day after a 26-23 overtime loss at Indianapolis. It was the team’s 18th loss in its last 23 games. More surprising, he kept Baalke.
“I didn’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater,” Jaguars owner Shad Khan said during a Zoom.
Khan added that rebooting the coaching staff, the scouting department and the rest of the football operations staff would amount to firing roughly 85 people.
“To change all of that is almost like suicidal,” he said. “That’s like shooting yourself in the foot. We need to go to work on something that is broken, that needs to be fixed and continually be improving things that are working.”
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JAX Jaguars Next Full Time Head Coach |
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Ben Johnson |
1/1 |
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Joe Brady |
3/1 |
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Kliff Kingsbury |
5/1 |
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Liam Coen |
9/1 |
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Anthony Weaver |
10/1 |
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Jon Gruden |
10/1 |
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Bobby Slowik |
12/1 |
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Todd Monken |
12/1 |
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Mike Vrabel |
16/1 |
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Aaron Glenn |
20/1 |
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Brian Flores |
20/1 |
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Jesse Minter |
25/1 |
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Matt Nagy |
25/1 |
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Wes Phillips |
25/1 |
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Steve Sarkisian |
33/1 |
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Pete Carroll |
40/1 |
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Robert Saleh |
50/1 |
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Bill Belichick |
100/1 |
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