Bears’ Ben Johnson Receives STUNNING Recognition — A RARE Honor Only NFL’s ELITE Head Coaches Ever Earn

The Chicago Bears have a new head coach in Ben Johnson of the Detroit Lions, and that’s going to make this upcoming season very exciting. The team is coming up on their first preseason game, and then, it will be time for the regular 2025-26 season to start. With less than two months to go until the regular season kicks in, things are at a fever pitch in camp.

The new head coach for the Bears is really the focus point of the season for them. Johnson is expected to work with quarterback Caleb Williams and make him into the signal-caller that everyone believes he can be. That duty, though, rests on Johnson to make it happen.

So, let’s look at the coaching staff for the Bears. Now, ESPN has released its tally of the best coaching staffs in the NFL. In the feature, Ben Solak breaks down all of the NFL team’s staffs and ranks them from best to worst. So, where do the Bears and Johnson fall?

Big Props for Ben Johnson of the Chicago Bears

While there’s lots of talk about the best players in the NFL leading up to the 2025-26 season, and rightly so, sometimes, it’s easy to overlook that there are other factors to a team’s success. One of the biggest measures of how well a team is going to do during the season, for any sport, is their coaching staff. From the head coach down to the coordinators and their staff, having a solid coaching staff is so critical to making sure a team thrives.

GettyHead coach Ben Johnson of the Chicago Bears looks on during Chicago Bears Training Camp at Halas Hall on July 28, 2025 in Lake Forest, Illinois. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

 

Solak ranks Johnson and his staff the No. 22 best staff in the NFL. That might seem low, but it’s actually super high, and rare, for a new head coach. So, Johnson is getting a ranking that not many new head coaches get from ESPN.

“I would usually hesitate to stick a first-time head coach this high, but I can’t look you in the face and say, ‘I’d rather have the Cardinals or Panthers or Falcons staff over this group,'” Solak notes in the feature. “Johnson has deservedly been the apple of the league’s eye for a few coaching searches now. Yes, plenty of great offensive minds have tried and failed at the CEO position.”

He adds, “But Johnson learned under one of the best in Dan Campbell, and he has taken this process from coordinator to head coach slowly and carefully. Those are positive, albeit early signs.”

He adds that he’s maybe “too far out on a limb here — the four other first-year coaches are within the bottom-five teams on this list. But if I have to plant a flag, this Bears staff feels like the right group for it.” We love it.

Who Are the Best Coaches in the NFL?

PFF has also released their tally of the top 10 best NFL head coaches. Johnson is not on here, likely because he is so new. They have Chiefs head coach Andy Reid as No. 1, and Reid does have the stats to show he’s one of the best.

“Like Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and the New England Patriots teams before them, the Kansas City Chiefs are the masters of situational football,” Dalton Wasserman says in the piece, published on June 24. “The Chiefs played in 12 one-score games last season, including the playoffs, and won all of them.” So, Reid does have that magic.