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Chris Beatty
Wide Receivers
College: East Tennessee State University
Hometown: Topeka, Kansas
Experience: 5 years
Biography
Enters his first season with the Las Vegas Raiders and brings with him four seasons of NFL coaching experience and 15 seasons of collegiate experience…He most recently served as wide receivers coach and interim offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears in 2024 after three seasons as wide receivers coach for the Los Angeles Chargers (2021-23)…Before joining the NFL ranks, he served as wide receivers coach at the University of Pittsburgh from 2019-20…Prior to Pittsburgh, spent three seasons (2016-18) at the University of Maryland, working with the wide receivers and adding associate head coach and co-offensive coordinator responsibilities over his final two seasons...He started coaching at the collegiate level in 2006, serving as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Hampton University before spending one season (2007) as the running backs coach at Northern Illinois University…From 2008-10, he coached running backs and wide receivers at West Virginia University…Spent the 2011 season at Vanderbilt University as wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator before joining the University of Illinois as co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2012…He then coached wide receivers at the University of Wisconsin from 2013-14 before becoming the associate head coach and running backs coach for the University of Virginia in 2015.