Brad Idzik enters his third season with Carolina as the team's offensive coordinator. After joining Head Coach Dave Canales' initial Panthers staff in 2024, Idzik and Canales have worked together for the past seven seasons across Carolina (2024-26), Tampa Bay (2023) and Seattle (2019-22).
In 2025, Idzik played a pivotal role in one of the most improved offenses in the NFL, helping to oversee strides creating balance across both the passing and rushing attack. Quarterback Bryce Young establishedcareer highs in passing yards (3,011), touchdown passes (23) and passer rating (87.8), the third consecutive season the QB has increased in each category. Young also led the team to a career-high eight wins as a starter, with six coming after a game-winning drive, tied for the second-most game-winning drives in the NFL that season. Dropping back to pass 25 times on fourth down in 2025, the third most in the league, Young led the NFL with a 156.3 passer rating and tied for second in completion percentage (75%) among the 28 quarterbacks with at least 10 dropbacks on fourth down.
Rookie wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan set a new franchise rookie record with 1,014 receiving yards and led all rookies in receiving yards and touchdown receptions (seven), and ranked third with 70 catches. 27 of McMillan's 70 receptions went for 16+ yards, the most explosive receptions and explosive plays by any rookie in the NFL in 2025. Second-year wide receiver Jalen Coker continued to ascend, logging a 76.7% reception percentage, the fourth best among wide receivers with at least 40 targets.
Despite 11 different starting lineup combinations, tied for the most in the league, and multiple starters at each offensive line position, running backs Rico Dowdle and Chuba Hubbard led a Panthers rushing attack that totaled 1,977 rushing yards, their most in a season since 2022. Dowdle (1,076) and Hubbard (511) both surpassed 500 rushing yards, marking the seventh time in franchise history the team produced multiple 500-yard rushers and the first time since 2011.
In his first season with Carolina (2024), Idzik was an integral part of Young's resurgence, after the second-year quarterback completed 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, while leading the Panthers on game-tying or game-winning drives in six of the final nine games.
Behind a stout offensive line led by Pro Bowl guard Robert Hunt, running back Hubbard eclipsed 1,000 rushing yards for the first time in his career, becoming the first Panther to reach this milestone since Christian McCaffrey 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).
Led by a trio of rookie receivers, the Panthers were the only team in the NFL with three players that ranked in the top-15 of rookie receiving yards with efforts from wide receiver Xavier Legette (497), wide receiver Jalen Coker (478) and tight end Ja'Tavion Sanders (342).
During Idzik's lone season in Tampa Bay (2023) as a 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 settingfranchise 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, Fla., 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 football family. 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).
- 2014-18 | Stanford - Graduate Assistant
- 2019-20 | Seattle Seahawks - Assistant Wide Receivers
- 2021 | Seattle Seahawks - Offensive Quality Control/Assistant Quarterbacks
- 2022 | Seattle Seahawks - Assistant Wide Receivers
- 2023 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Wide Receivers
- 2024-Pres. | Carolina Panthers - Offensive Coordinator
