- Led Tampa Bay in 2024 to become the first team in NFL history to finish a season averaging 5.0-plus yards per rush (5.3) and a completion percentage of over 70.0 (71.5)
- Improved the NFL's worst-ranked rush offense in 2022 and 2023 to a ground game that finished third in yards per rush (5.3) and fourth in rush yards per game (149.2) in 2024
Liam Coen was named head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars on January 24, 2025.
Coen's Jaguars went 13-4 in his first campaign (most wins by an AFC South team since 2009) and he became the NFL's first rookie head coach to win 13+ games after inheriting a team that won four or fewer games the season prior. The Jaguars were one of just four teams to rank among the NFL's top 10 in both points scored (sixth, franchise-record 27.9ppg) and points allowed (eighth, 19.8ppg). Jacksonville finished fourth in the NFL in point differential (+138).
As offensive play caller, Coen helped elevate Trevor Lawrence, whose 38 total TDs ranked third in the NFL. Following a Week 8 bye, the Jaguars went 9-1 and averaged 32.8 ppg. Defensively, Jacksonville led the NFL in rush defense (85.6ypg) and ranked second with 31 takeaways. Coen arrived in Jacksonville after spending one season as the offensive coordinator for the Tampa Buccaneers (2024). In his lone season in Tampa Bay, he led the NFL's only offense that finished in the top five in yards per game (399.6), scoring (29.5), passing yards per game (250.4) and rushing yards per game (149.2). The Buccaneers became the first team in NFL history to complete 70 percent of their passes and average over 5.0 yards per carry throughout an entire season, in addition to becoming just the second team in league history with 40-plus passing touchdowns and 5.0-plus yards per rush in a single season.
Tampa Bay's offense established a number of single-season franchise records under Coen, including completion percentage (71.5 percent), passer rating (106.8), yards per rush (5.3), rushing yards (2,536) and third-down conversion rate (50.9 percent). Coen oversaw a complete overhaul of the team's rushing attack, improving the NFL's worst-ranked rush offense in 2022 and 2023 to a ground game that finished third in yards per rush and fourth in rush yards per game in 2024. Coen's 2024 offense was one of three across the league to throw for 4,000-plus yards and rush for 2,000-plus yards last season.
Coen helped QB Baker Mayfield to career highs in passer rating (106.8), completion percentage (71.4 percent), passing touchdowns (41) and passing yards (4,500), which put him among a group of 10 quarterbacks in NFL history with 4,500-plus yards and 40-plus passing touchdowns in a season. Additionally, Coen oversaw OL Tristan Wirfs' Pro Bowl and first-team Associated Press AllPro season and WR Mike Evans' NFL-record-tying streak of 11 consecutive 1,000-yard receiving seasons. RB Bucky Irving led all rookies in scrimmage yards (1,514), rushing yards (1,122) and rushing touchdowns (eight), while WR Jalen McMillan tied second among rookies in receiving touchdowns (eight).
Before his stint with Tampa Bay, Coen served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Kentucky for the 2023 and 2021 seasons during which he put forth two of the highest-scoring single seasons in school history (56 total touchdowns in 2021, 50 in 2023).
Prior to his second stint with the Wildcats, Coen was the Rams' offensive coordinator in 2022 after spending time as the club's assistant quarterbacks coach (2020) and assistant wide receivers coach (2018-19). Coen contributed to an offense that ranked among league leaders across those seasons in passing yards per game (248.1; sixth) and rushing touchdowns (77; fourth). As assistant wide receivers coach in 2018, Coen helped guide Robert Woods and Brandin Cooks, who each topped 1,200 yards that season on the way to a Super Bowl appearance. The following year, Woods and Cooper Kupp each surpassed 1,100 receiving yards, marking the latter's first 1,000-yard campaign.
Before joining the Rams, Coen spent two seasons as the offensive coordinator for the University of Maine (2016-17). He came to Maine from the University of Massachusetts (2014-15), where he had served as the quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator. Coen also spent three years as the quarterbacks coach at Brown University (2010, 2012-13) and one year as the quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator at the University of Rhode Island (2011).
Prior to his coaching career, Coen played quarterback at the University of Massachusetts. He holds the program records for completions (830), attempts (1,302), completion percentage (63.7 percent), passing yards (11,031), yards per attempt (8.5), passing touchdowns (50) and passer rating (150.7). He graduated in 2008 with a degree in communications. A native of Wakefield, Rhode Island, Coen and his wife, Ashley, have two sons, Jackson and Callahan.
