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The Los Angeles Chargers made many appointments to Head Coach Jim Harbaugh’s staff for the 2024 season. Along with the additions listed below, Special Teams Coordinator Ryan Ficken, Assistant Special Teams Coach Chris Gould, and Defensive Quality Control Coach Robert Muschamp will remain on the coaching staff.

Andy Bischoff, the Chargers’ run game coordinator and tight ends coach, has vast coaching experience. He coached the tight ends for the New York Giants from 2022 to 2023 and the Houston Texans in 2021, helping the Giants make their first postseason appearance since 2016. He spent six seasons (2015-20) with the Ravens in various offensive roles, primarily working with tight ends during his final four years. Bischoff served as the assistant tight ends coach from 2019 to 2020, assisting Mark Andrews in leading all NFL tight ends with 17 touchdown catches during that time.

Bischoff served two seasons as tight ends coach/staff coordinator for the Chicago Bears before joining the Ravens. From 2008 to 2009, he worked as a running backs/offensive quality control coach with the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League, later adding special teams responsibilities from 2010 to 2012. Bischoff began his coaching career at Cretin-Derham Hall High, where he coached from 1993 until 2007. He helped 18 offensive linemen and three tight ends get Division I scholarships, including ex-NFL stars Matt Birk, Ryan Harris, and Michael Floyd.

NaVorro Bowman, a four-time Associated Press first-team All-Pro linebacker with over 100 career games, will make his NFL coaching debut with the Bolts as linebackers coach. He is reunited with Head Coach Jim Harbaugh, who coached him for four seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, helping him achieve three AP first-team All-Pro choices and two Pro Bowl nominations. Bowman was one of the NFL’s most dominant defensive players throughout his career, with over 800 tackles, 16.5 sacks, and five interceptions in the regular and postseason combined.

He was drafted by the 49ers in the third round (91st overall) in the 2010 NFL Draft from Penn State, and he spent seven seasons with the team before concluding his career in Oakland. Bowman, who retired in 2018, began coaching as a defensive analyst at the University of Maryland last season.

Steve Clinkscale, a 23-year collegiate coaching veteran, comes to Los Angeles to coach defensive backs after serving as secondary coach at the University of Michigan for three seasons (2021-23). Last season, he acquired co-defensive coordinator responsibilities and helped lead the top-ranked defense in NCAA football, allowing only 247.0 total net yards.

per game, as the Wolverines went 15-0 and won the College Football Playoff National Championship. Prior to his time at Michigan, Clinkscale taught defensive backs at the University of Kentucky for five seasons (2016-20) and the University of Cincinnati for three seasons (2013-15), where he also served as defensive coordinator in his last season. He began coaching defensive backs at his alma mater, Ashland University, from 2001 to 2007, before moving on to Western Carolina in 2008. Clinkscale then worked as a cornerbacks coach/special teams coordinator at Toledo from 2009 to 2011, before moving on to coach cornerbacks at Illinois in 2012.

Shane Day returns to the Chargers as quarterback coach after serving as a senior offensive assistant with the Houston Texans in 2023. He assisted quarterback C.J. Stroud in winning The Associated Press Offensive Rookie of the Year award after passing for over 4,000 yards and 23 touchdowns while leading the Texans to an AFC South title and playoff victory. Day was the Bolts’ passing game coordinator/quarterbacks coach for two seasons (2021-22), guiding quarterback Justin Herbert to a Pro Bowl selection in 2021 after setting franchise records for completions (443), passing yards (5,014), passing touchdowns (38) and games with 300-plus passing yards (nine).

Before joining the Bolts, Day coached quarterbacks for the San Francisco 49ers from 2019 to 2020. He coached quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo in 2019, who led the 49ers to Super Bowl LIV and was voted NFL Comeback Player of the Year by Sporting News. Day began his NFL coaching career with San Francisco as an offensive quality control coach from 2007 to 2009, before moving on to coach quarterbacks in Chicago from 2010 to 2011. After two seasons coaching quarterbacks at the University of Connecticut (2012-13), Day returned to the NFL as an assistant offensive line coach for Washington from 2014-15, followed by a stint coaching tight ends for Miami from 2016-18.

Mike Devlin, the Bolts’ offensive line coach, has 21 years of NFL coaching experience, having previously spent eight seasons with the New York Jets and Houston Texans. He most recently served as the Baltimore Ravens’ assistant offensive line coach for two years (2022-23), assisting guard Kevin Zeitler and center Tyler Linderbaum in earning Pro Bowl selections this season. In 2022, Devlin guided Linderbaum to start all 17 regular-season games and earn All-Rookie honors from the Professional Football Writers Association.

Prior to his stay in Baltimore, Devlin served as offensive line coach for the Houston Texans (2015-20) and the New York Jets (2013-14). He coached Nick Mangold (two), Laremy Tunsil (two), and Duane Brown (one) to Pro Bowl appearances. Devlin coached tight ends for the Jets from 2006 to 2012, his first NFL role, following two years teaching the offensive line at the University of Toledo. Devlin, the 1992 Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year at the University of Iowa, was drafted in the fifth round by the Buffalo Bills and played for them from 1993 to 1995 before joining the Arizona Cardinals for four seasons from 1996 to 1999. Following his professional career, Devlin got his start in coaching with the Cardinals as an assistant offensive line coach…