The Los Angeles Chargers have, as widely anticipated, named Mike McDaniel as the team’s new offensive coordinator.

McDaniel joins the Chargers after four seasons as head coach of the Miami Dolphins from 2022 through 2025, where his offenses consistently ranked among the league’s most productive, finished eighth overall in both passing offense and total offense. Despite falling short this past season, which prompted his ousting, McDaniel accumulated 35 regular season wins in Miami and guided the franchise to postseason appearances in each of his first two seasons in charge.

The pinnacle of McDaniel’s run with the Dolphins came in 2023, when Miami posted an 11-win season and fielded the NFL’s top offense. That unit led the league in total offense at 401.3 yards per game and passing offense at 265.5 net yards per game, while ranking second in scoring offense at 29.2 points per game. Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa led the NFL with 4,624 passing yards, and the Dolphins became just the 18th team in league history to feature a 4,000-yard passer, a 1,000-yard rusher and two 1,000-yard receivers in the same season.

Prior to landing his first head coaching gig, McDaniel spent five seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, first as run game coordinator and later as offensive coordinator. During that span, the Niners ranked sixth in the NFL in total offense, while Deebo Samuel emerged as one of the league’s most versatile weapons with more than 1,700 yards from scrimmage.

Over the course of his NFL coaching career, McDaniel’s coaching résumé features stops in Washington, Cleveland, Atlanta as well as San Francisco and, through his association with current 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan, worked with the likes of George Kittle, Brandon Aiyuk and Jimmy Garoppolo in the Bay Area, and with Matt Ryan in the Falcons’ Super Bowl side.

He returns to California to work under Jim Harbaugh as the Chargers look to get the most out of QB Justin Herbert and an offense that also features Ladd McConkey and Quentin Johnson at receiver and 2025 rookie Omarion Hampton out of the backfield.