Report: Former Chiefs and Commanders OC Eric Bieniemy to take same position at UCLA

Eric Bieniemy is heading to the Big Ten. (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)

Eric Bieniemy is heading back to college football.

According to ESPN, the former Kansas City Chiefs and Washington Commanders offensive coordinator will be the offensive coordinator and associate head coach at UCLA. Bieniemy will work for new UCLA coach DeShaun Foster after Foster was promoted to succeed Chip Kelly as the Bruins’ head coach.

Bieniemy was the offensive coordinator in Kansas City from 2018-2022 as the Chiefs won two Super Bowls and hosted the AFC championship game in each of those five seasons. Bieniemy’s work under Andy Reid and with Patrick Mahomes earned him numerous head coaching interviews with NFL teams, but he kept getting passed over for other candidates.

With his contract up at the end of the 2022 season — and the Chiefs coming off a Super Bowl win — Bieniemy amicably parted ways with the Chiefs for the same role with the Commanders. That lasted just one season. Washington QB Sam Howell was sacked the most of any quarterback in 2023 and the Commanders scuffled to a 4-13 record before coach Ron Rivera was fired at the end of the season.

That left Bieniemy out of a job heading into 2024 and seemingly on the back foot as NFL teams finalized their new coaching staffs. As all the offensive coordinator positions were filled in the NFL — and Kliff Kingsbury succeeded him in Washington — heading back to the college ranks was Bieniemy’s best option to keep coaching at the top levels of football in 2024.

Bieniemy has college coaching experience and has coached at UCLA too. The former Colorado running back got his college football coaching start with the Buffaloes for two seasons before heading to UCLA in 2003 to be the Bruins’ running backs coach. He was at UCLA for three seasons before taking a job with the…

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Publish date : 2024-02-25 00:08:24

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