Matt Giordano enters his first season with the Bears in 2025.
A nine-year NFL veteran, Giordano joins the Bears as assistant defensive backs/safeties coach after serving the last two seasons as a defensive assistant with the New Orleans Saints, primarily working with the secondary.
Prior to entering the NFL coaching ranks in 2023 with New Orleans, Giordano spent one season as a volunteer assistant at Fresno State University (2022). Giordano entered the coaching ranks at his alma mater, Buchanan High School in Clovis, Calif., where, after initially joining the staff in 2015 as Defensive Coordinator, elevated to Head Coach in 2016, where he led the program for the next six seasons. Over his six seasons at the helm, amassed a 51-16 record.
Before his coaching tenure, Giordano played nine seasons in the NFL as a defensive back. A fourth-round selection (134th overall) by the Indianapolis Colts in the 2005 NFL Draft, Giordano appeared in 116 career games for the Colts (2005-08), Green Bay Packers (2009), New Orleans Saints (2010), Oakland Raiders (2011-12) and St. Louis Rams (2013), totaling 202 tackles, one sack, 11 interceptions, including two returned for touchdowns, 16 passes defensed, two forced fumbles, 52 special teams tackles and one coverage fumble recovery. Giordano also totaled seven postseason appearances over his playing career, including a World Championship in 2006 (Super Bowl XLI).
Giordano played two seasons at the University of California (2003-04), earning First-Team All-Pac-10 honors as a senior in 2004, after two seasons at Fresno City College (2002-03).
A native of Clovis, Calif., Giordano was inducted into the Fresno Athletic Hall of Fame in 2019.
Giordano is married to his wife, Laura.
