Jason Michael enters the 22nd season of his coaching career, including his fourth year as the Philadelphia Eagles' tight ends coach.
In 2023, Michael guided Dallas Goedert to a career-high 59 receptions for 592 yards and three touchdowns in 14 contests. Goedert finished ninth among NFL tight ends in catches per game (4.2), while also logging the fifth-most yards after the catch per reception (5.4) at his position.
During the 2022 campaign, when Philadelphia advanced to Super Bowl LVII, Michael coached Goedert to his second consecutive season with 700-plus receiving yards (702). Through the first 10 weeks, Goedert ranked first among NFL tight ends in yards after the catch (348) and second in both receiving yards (521) and receiving average (13.0) before being placed on the injured reserve list. Despite missing five games, Goedert finished third at his position in yards after the catch (420) and receiving yards.
In his first year with the Eagles, Michael facilitated a breakout season by Goedert, who totaled the fifth-most receiving yards (career-high 830) among NFL tight ends. Goedert also led his position in receiving first-down percentage (75.0 pct.) and ranked second in yards per catch (career-high 14.8). In addition, Michael developed Jack Stoll, who was the only undrafted rookie to make Philadelphia's roster out of training camp in 2021.
During the 2019-20 seasons, Michael served as the Indianapolis Colts' tight ends coach, working under Eagles head coach and former Colts offensive coordinator Nick Sirianni. Over that two-year stretch, Indianapolis' tight ends combined to rank fifth in the AFC among their position group in receptions (168, 10th in the NFL) and yards (1,862, ninth in the NFL).
In 2020, Michael helped the Colts post the 10th-ranked offense (378.1 ypg) in the league. He also coached the tight ends to a productive year in 2019, with Jack Doyle earning a Pro Bowl nod after starting all 16 games and totaling 43 receptions for 448 yards and four touchdowns.
Michael served as the tight ends coach for the Arizona Cardinals during the 2018 season, when Ricky Seals-Jones registered career highs in both receptions (34) and receiving yards (343).
Prior to Arizona, Michael spent four seasons on the Tennessee Titans' staff as the quarterbacks coach (2016-17) and offensive coordinator (2014-15). He also played an instrumental role in developing quarterback Marcus Mariota, whom the team selected with the second-overall pick in 2015.
From 2015-16, Mariota ranked first in the NFL in red zone passer rating (114.6) after accounting for 33 red zone touchdown passes with zero interceptions. As a rookie in 2015, he became the first player in NFL history to record a perfect passer rating (158.3) in their starting debut.
As offensive coordinator in 2015, the Titans established a team record with 12 different players catching a touchdown. Furthermore, Delanie Walker was named to the Pro Bowl after leading all NFL tight ends in receptions (94) and producing a career high in receiving yards (1,088).
Michael coached the San Diego Chargers' tight ends from 2011-13 on a staff that included Sirianni. In that span, Michael guided Antonio Gates to the fourth-most receptions (190) among NFL tight ends, including 77 catches in 2013. He also helped Gates earn a Pro Bowl selection in 2011.
Michael spent two years with the San Francisco 49ers (2009-10) as an offensive assistant and worked with the team's quarterbacks in 2010. Before joining the 49ers, he coached the tight ends at the University of Tennessee (2008), where he originally began his career as a graduate assistant with the secondary and special teams units (2003-04).
Between stints at the University of Tennessee, Michael served as a tight ends coach (2007) and quarterbacks/quality control coach (2006). In 2006, he helped Chad Pennington earn Associated Press NFL Comeback Player of the Year accolades. He started coaching in the NFL as a quality control coach with the Oakland Raiders during the 2005 season.
Michael was a quarterback who began his college playing career at Army before transferring to Western Kentucky, where he was a two-time captain. As a senior in 2002, he guided the Hilltoppers to the NCAA I-AA title and was named the school's Male Athlete of the Year.
A native of Louisa, KY, Michael earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering technology from Western Kentucky and was named a I-AA Athletic Directors Academic All-Star and academic all-district honoree.
Michael is married to his wife, Jamie. The couple has a son, Wyatt, and a daughter, Charlie.
