Darrell Bevell enters his first season with the Panthers as the Associate Head Coach/Offensive Specialist. In his 30th year of coaching, including 26 years at the NFL level, Bevell has 15 years of experience as an offensive coordinator for four different teams – Minnesota (2006-10), Seattle (2011-17), Detroit (2019-20) and Jacksonville (2021). He's also served as an interim head coach twice – Detroit (2020) and Jacksonville (2021).

Darrell Bevell enters his first season with the Panthers as the Associate Head Coach/Offensive Specialist. In his 30th year of coaching, including 26 years at the NFL level, Bevell has 15 years of experience as an offensive coordinator for four different teams – Minnesota (2006-10), Seattle (2011-17), Detroit (2019-20) and Jacksonville (2021). He's also served as an interim head coach twice – Detroit (2020) and Jacksonville (2021).

Bevell has coached several Pro Bowl quarterbacks throughout his career including Brett Favre, Russell Wilson, Matthew Stafford, Trevor Lawrence and Tua Tagovailoa. He's also called plays for a Super Bowl-winning team when he was Seattle's offensive coordinator during their Super Bowl XLVIII victory.

Prior to coming to Carolina, Bevell has spent the past four seasons (2022-25) as quarterbacks coach/pass game coordinator for Miami. Under Bevell, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa became one of just seven quarterbacks to have led the league in each of the following categories: passer rating (2022), passing yards (2023) and completion percentage (2024). He is one of three to do so in the first five years of his career (Kurt Warner/Ken Anderson). In 2024, Tagovailoa's franchise-record completion percentage (72.9%) was also the third-best in NFL history.

In 2023, Bevell helped Tagovailoa lead the league in passing yards (4,624), the first Dolphin to do so in over 30 years, while his 69.3% completion percentage was the then best in franchise history, with his 101.3 passer rating and 29 passing touchdowns (29) both finishing top five.

In Bevell's first season in Miami (2022), Tagovailoa became the youngest player to lead the NFL in passer rating (105.5) since 1984. Tagovailoa also led the league in third-down passer rating (130.1) and red zone passer rating (112.2), one of seven players to lead in all three categories since 1973.

Despite three different quarterbacks starting multiple games for Miami in 2022 – Tagovailoa, Teddy Bridgewater and Skylar Thompson - Bevell helped the Dolphins finish with a top-10 offense (sixth, 364.5 yards per game) for the first time since 1995 and earn a playoff berth for the first time since 2016.

As Jacksonville's offensive coordinator (2021), Bevell served as the team's interim head coach for the final four games and led the team to a Week 18 victory over Indianapolis that eliminated the Colts from a playoff berth. Bevell worked closely with rookie quarterback Trevor Lawrence, who set a Jaguars rookie record with 3,641 passing yards. The mark ranked 11th in NFL rookie history.

Bevell spent two seasons as offensive coordinator for Detroit (2019-20), where he helped the Lions finish with the NFL's 10th-best passing offense in both 2019 (243.8) and 2020 (256.5). The Lions were the only team in the NFL to have four different running backs with at least 200 yards rushing in 2019. Bevell spent the final five games of the 2020 campaign as Detroit's interim head coach.

As Seattle's offensive coordinator (2011-17), Bevell helped the Seahawks earn five playoff berths, win three NFC West titles, two NFC championships and one Super Bowl (XLVIII). Seattle had eight different players combine for 17 Pro Bowl selections during his seven seasons. Two players earned first-team All-Pro honors. The Seahawks had the NFL's second-best rushing offense (131.9) in that span and Seattle's cumulative passer rating of 95.7 was fourth in the league.

During his final six seasons in Seattle (2012-17), Bevell worked closely with quarterback Russell Wilson, who entered the NFL as a third-round pick (75th overall) in the 2012 NFL Draft. At the time, Wilson had the most wins (65), best passer rating (98.8), third-best interception rate (1.98), fourth-most passing touchdowns (161), fifth-highest completion percentage (64.0) and sixth-most passing yards (22,176) ever by a quarterback in his first six NFL seasons.

Seattle won Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014 as Bevell oversaw the best rushing offense in the NFL. The Seahawks averaged 172.6 rushing yards per game, a full 25 yards per game more than any other team in the league. Running back Marshawn Lynch tied for the NFL lead with 13 rushing touchdowns and earned a Pro Bowl selection and second-team All-Pro honors.

Bevell spent five seasons as offensive coordinator for Minnesota (2006-10), where he helped the Vikings win the NFC North twice and advanced to the NFC Championship game (2009). In his tenure, Bevell helped eight different offensive players earn a total of 15 Pro Bowl selections. Two players earned a total of five first-team All-Pro honors. Running back Adrian Peterson (2007) and wide receiver Percy Harvin (2009) both won NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year.

The Vikings were fourth in the NFL in yards per carry (4.51) from 2006-10. They also ranked fifth in total rushing yards (10,646) and rushing touchdowns (84). As Minnesota's offensive coordinator when Peterson was drafted (2007), Bevell helped the back rush for at least 1,200 yards and 10 touchdowns each season, as Peterson set the NFL's single-game rushing record with 296 yards in 2007.

Bevell's first NFL coaching job came in 2000 when he joined Green Bay as an offensive assistant/quality control. He was promoted to quarterbacks coach in 2003, when he first coached Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre. In Bevell's first season as quarterbacks coach, Favre led the NFL with 32 touchdown passes. In 2004, the Packers set a then-team record with 4,449 net passing yards and ranked third in the NFL in total offense (397.3).

Bevell coached wide receivers at Connecticut (1998-99). In 1998, the Huskies advanced to the NCAA Division I-AA quarterfinals and scored a then-school record 461 points. Bevell's first coaching position came at Westmar University (1996) as passing game coordinator/quarterbacks coach. He moved to Iowa State (1997) as a graduate assistant.

A four-year starting quarterback (1992-95) at Wisconsin, Bevell is still the school's all-time leading passer (7,686 yards) and at one point held more than 20 team and conference records. As a sophomore (1993), Bevell helped Wisconsin clinch a share of the Big Ten title for the first time since 1962 and win the school's first Rose Bowl on Jan. 1, 1994. His 67.8 completion percentage in 1993 was a Big Ten record until 2010. He was inducted into the University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 2017.

He began his collegiate career at Northern Arizona in 1989. After redshirting one season, Bevell went on a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Cleveland from 1990-91.

A Yuma, Arizona native, Bevell and his wife, Tammy, have three daughters, Kylie, Morgan and Hailey.

Coaching Career

• 1996 | Westmar – Quarterbacks/Passing Game Coordinator
• 1997 | Iowa State – Graduate Assistant
• 1998-99 | Connecticut – Wide Receivers
• 2000-01 | Green Bay Packers – Offensive Assistant/Quality Control
• 2002 | Green Bay Packers – Offensive Assistant
• 2003-05 | Green Bay Packers – Quarterbacks
• 2006-10 | Minnesota Vikings – Offensive Coordinator
• 2011-17 | Seattle Seahawks – Offensive Coordinator
• 2019-20 | Detroit Lions – Offensive Coordinator
• 2020 | Detroit Lions – Interim Head Coach
• 2021 | Jacksonville Jaguars – Offensive Coordinator
• 2021 | Jacksonville Jaguars – Interim Head Coach
• 2022-25 | Miami Dolphins – Quarterbacks/Pass Game Coordinator
• 2026 | Carolina Panthers – Associate Head Coach/Offensive Specialist