Jeremy Garrett enters his first season with the Bears in 2025.
A coaching veteran of over 15 years at the NFL, collegiate and high school levels, Garrett arrives in Chicago to lead the defensive line group after most recently serving as the defensive line coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2024. Prior to Jacksonville, Garrett spent two seasons at the collegiate level, first leading the defensive line at Liberty University (2022), before joining the staff at Auburn University (2023) as defensive line coach for the Tigers. At Liberty, Garrett led a unit that led the country in tackles for loss (121), as DE Durrell Johnson collected 22.5 TFLs, the most by any player in the nation. Following his season at Liberty, Garrett led an Auburn front that featured DT Marcus Harris, who earned First-Team All-SEC recognition and DL Keldric Faulk, who was named to the SEC All-Freshman Team, as the Tigers ranked in the top-half of the conference in sacks.
Garrett spent two seasons as the assistant defensive line coach for the Cleveland Browns (2020-21), helping the Browns reach the postseason and earn an AFC Wild Card Round victory in 2020. In his two seasons with the Browns, DE Myles Garrett earned AP First-Team All-Pro honors, as his career-high 16.0 sacks in 2021 set a new franchise single-season record. As a unit, the Browns finished the season ranked top-five in the NFL in total defense (5th, 311.5 yards per game), the highest finish by a Browns defense since 1987.
Before entering the NFL ranks, Garrett spent one season as a defensive quality control coach at Vanderbilt University (2019), where he worked with the Commodores' defensive front.
Garrett's coaching tenure began at the high school level, first at Southaven High School (Miss.), where he served as an assistant coach (2010), before spending eight years at Nashville's Ensworth High School (Tenn.), elevating to head coach in 2018. Garrett served in a variety of roles over his first seven years at Ensworth, including associate director of admissions, assistant track and field coach and fitness department chair, on top of being a defensive assistant coach. In his one season as head coach, Garrett led Ensworth to the Quarterfinal Round of the Division II-AAA Playoffs.
A four-year letter-winning defensive lineman at Ole Miss (2004-07), Garrett collected Ole Miss Lifter of the Year and Chuck Mullins Courage Award honors during his time with the Rebels. Garrett graduated with a bachelor's degree in business from Ole Miss in 2007 and later earned his MBA from Harding University (Ark.) in 2010.
Garrett and his wife, Shay, has two sons – Jayden and Jacob – and one daughter – Grace.
