2025-26 NFL Coach of the Year Odds Tracker

• Get the latest odds to win the 2025-26 NFL Coach of the Year award
• Shane Steichen is the NFL COY favorite
• Track how the NFL COY odds change throughout the course of the 2025-26 NFL season

The Associated Press has been handing out an NFL Coach of the Year award since 1957. Below you’ll find the odds to win the 2025-26 NFL COY award. The graphs below were generated by averaging the odds from multiple sportsbooks.

2025-26 NFL Coach of the Year Award Odds & Favorites

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The NFL Coach of the Year award is not always awarded to the best head coach in the league. Often, it goes to the coach who turned around a bad team early in his tenure, or one whose team still won a lot of games while playing without some of their stars.

It’s hard to predict which coaches will see their teams suffer through some bad injury luck, but it is easy to identify the candidates to turn around bad or underachieving teams. This is why we saw Ben Johnson, who took over a Bears team who greatly underachieved last season, listed as the early favorite to win NFL COY, and have coaches like Mike Vrabel, who took over a bad Patriots team, Pete Carroll, who is in his first year as the Raiders head coach, and Liam Coen, who took on an underachieving Jaguars team, all listed with short odds prior to kickoff.

However, things did not start well for Johnson in Chicago, and though he is climbing his way back up the board, we have seen Shane Steichen rise up and become the new favorite since Week 2. He is now just continuing to shorten with each Colts win.

NFL COY Odds

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Shane Steichen is given the best odds to win the 2025-26 NFL Coach of the Year award. Steichen’s odds are listed at +250, which implies he has a 28.6% chance to win the award. If you bet $20 on the Colts’ head coach, your potential profit would be $50 while returning $70.

Steichen faded from +353 to +400 when Indy lost its first game of the season in Week 4, but he’s now at a season-best +230 consensus odds after his Colts took care of business against the Cardinals in Week 6.

The top NFL Coach of the Year contenders after Week 6 are:

1. Shane Steichen, Colts (+230 consensus odds)
2. Mike Vrabel, Patriots (+488)
3. Liam Cohen, Jaguars (+650)
4. Kyle Shanahan, 49ers (+1300)
5. Todd Bowles, Bucs (+1450)

The coaches making the most notable rise up the NFL COY odds after Week 6 are:

• Mike Vrabel: the Patriots head coach made a huge leap from +1700 to +625 after New England recorded one of the biggest upsets of the season so far, taking down the heavily-favored and previously-unbeaten Bills (23-20) in Buffalo on Sunday Night Football.
• Brian Daboll: a massive win over the Eagles, in convincing fashion, has sent Brian Daboll’s COY odds from +6000 all the way down to +3000 following Week 6.

And the coaches who saw their odds fall most notably include:

• Kyle Shanahan: the 49ers head coach has been among the top contenders thanks to the success his team has enjoyed with Brock Purdy, George Kittle, Brandon Aiyuk, and Ricky Pearsall (among others) missing from their lineup. But a bad loss to a similarly-shorthanded Bucs team in Week 6 resulted in Shanahan’s odds fading from +850 to +1300.
• Liam Cohen: the boost Cohen’s COY odds saw from beating the Chiefs in Week 5 has gone away after they lost to the Seahawks in Week 6. Cohen’s consensus odds faded from +475 to +650 after the loss.
• Dan Campbell: entering Week 6, Campbell was being given +925 consensus odds to win Coach of the Year, but a loss to the Chiefs on SNF sent his odds way back to +2100.

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Here are some more notes on the movement we have seen:

• [September 16] Shane Steichen took over as the new favorite after beating the Broncos, and helping Daniel Jones throw for 316 yards against what was believed to be a stingy Denver defense.
• [September 9] Liam Cohen became the new favorite to win Coach of the Year after his Jaguars put together a convincing win over the Panthers in Week 1.
• [August 29] Ben Johnson reclaimed the best odds to win Coach of the Year after the Bears’ starting offense put together some encouraging drives during the preseason.
• [August 15] Bettors had to be appreciating Jonathan Gannon, as the Cardinals’ coach saw his odds improve from an average of +2500 in late-June to +1700 in mid-August.
• [July 22] Mike Vrabel overtook Ben Johnson as the favorite to win NFL Coach of the Year. Neither saw their odds move much at this time, and it was likely just the result of money coming in on Vrabel.
• [March 14] After the Bears added three new starting offensive linemen during free agency, acquiring two of them via trades, as well as bolstering the interior of their defense, Ben Johnson’s NFL Coach of the Year odds improved from +700 to +550.
• [March 7] Pete Carroll was already among the COY favorites prior to the Raiders acquiring Geno Smith, but most sportsbooks did not adjust his odds after the trade. ESPN Bet, however, quickly moved Carroll from +1400 to +1000 after the former Seahawks head coach was reunited with his quarterback.
• [February 12] The opening 2025-26 NFL Coach of the Year odds favor Ben Johnson, who is a first-time head coach and accepted the Bears job. Sportsbooks obviously like the talent Johnson is inheriting in Chicago, and understand he would be a front-runner in the eyes of the voters if he was able to get Caleb Williams going after a rough rookie season.

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AFC vs NFC

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A coach from the AFC has won NFL COY in four of the last six seasons.

Odds for Past Winners

Since 1991, all but one NFL Coach of the Year winner has led their team to at least ten wins in taking home the honor. The lone winner without ten wins was Brian Daboll three seasons ago, whose Giants only went 9-7-1. Daboll’s turnaround was still significant enough, as he took over a team that went 4-13 the previous season and made a QB who had firmly been labeled a bust look very serviceable.

The only other notable from that streak above is Bruce Arians, who led the Colts to a 9-3 record as head coach after taking over for Chuck Pagano after he stepped away for health reasons. The Colts did still win 11 games, though.

Past Coach of the Year Winners

The 2021-22 NFL season was the first time we saw the regular season schedule expanded to 18 weeks, with each team playing 17 games. This is why you see the extra game in all the COY winners since that season.

We have not seen a coach win the honor in back-to-back years since Joe Gibbs in 1982 and 1983.

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