Brad Idzik enters his second season with Carolina as the team's offensive coordinator. After spending the 2023 season with Head Coach Dave Canales in Tampa Bay as the wide receivers coach, Idzik joined the Panthers coaching staff in 2024. Idzik and Canales have worked together for the past six seasons in Tampa (2023) and Seattle (2019-22).
An integral part of Bryce Young's resurgence in 2024, Idzik oversaw the second-year quarterback complete 197-of-319 passes (61.8%) for 2,104 yards with 15 touchdown passes and just six interceptions after regaining the starting role in Week 8. Additionally, Young led the Panthers on game-tying or game-winning drives in six of the final nine games.
Behind a stout offensive line led by first-time Pro Bowl guard Robert Hunt, running back Chuba Hubbard eclipsed 1,000 rushing yards for the first time in his career, becoming the first Panther to reach this milestone since Christian McCaffery in 2019. The Panthers finished tied for eighth in the league in rushing touchdowns (18), tied for ninth in rushes of 20+ yards (13), 10th in rushing yards per attempt (4.58) and 11th in rushing yards before contact (697).The Panthers were the only offense in the NFL with three players in the top 15 in receiving yards among rookies: wide receivers Xavier Legette (497) and Jalen Coker (478), as well as tight end Ja'Tavion Sanders (342).
During Idzik's lone season in Tampa Bay (2023) as wide receivers coach, wide receivers Mike Evans and Chris Godwin became one of just three pairs of teammates to record at least 75 receptions and 950 receiving yards that season. Evans also became the first player in NFL history to record 60+ receptions in each of his first 10 seasons and reached the 1,000-yard mark for the 10th consecutive season in his decade-long career.
In four seasons on the Seahawks coaching staff, Idzik served as an assistant wide receivers coach (2019-20, 2022) and as an offensive quality control/assistant quarterbacks coach (2021). Seattle wide receivers Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf amassed more than 1,000 yards receiving six times, with both setting franchise records in 2020 – Lockett with 100 receptions and Metcalf with 1,303 yards. Overall, the Seahawks wide receiver room recorded the second-most receiving touchdowns (92), the third-most air yards per target (11.6), the seventh-highest receiving percentage (65.7%), and the 10th-most total receiving yards (11,053) in the NFL during that span.
Additionally, the Seahawks ranked first in completion percentage (67.6), third in touchdown-to-interception ratio (3.45), third in passer rating (103.3), fourth in yards per pass attempt (7.7), fifth in passing touchdowns (131), seventh in yards per play (5.75) and ninth in points per game (25.2). Under Idzik's guidance as assistant quarterbacks coach (2021), quarterback Russell Wilson earned Pro Bowl honors, passing for 3,113 yards and 25 touchdowns in 14 starts.
Idzik was a wide receiver at Wake Forest University (2011-14), after beginning his collegiate career at Lehigh (2010). A native of Palm Harbor, Florida, he graduated from Wake Forest in 2014 with a degree in mathematical business and a minor in global trade and commerce, which he completed after a sabbatical term at Cambridge University in England. He later earned a Master of Liberal Arts degree in 2019 from Stanford, where he began his coaching career as a graduate assistant (2014-18).
Following in his father and grandfather's footsteps, Idzik comes from a family of football coaches. His father, John Idzik Jr., was a receivers coach at the University of Buffalo (1982) and served as a long-time NFL personnel executive, including as the general manager of the New York Jets (2013-14). His grandfather, John Idzik, was a coach in the NFL, CFL and in collegiate ranks, where he spent three years as the head coach at the University of Detroit (1962-64).
