Sean McVay

His grandfather, John McVay, was the head football coach at the University of Dayton from 1965 to 1972, head coach of the New York Giants later in the 1970s, and general manager of the San Francisco 49ers for the team's five Super Bowl championships during the 1980 and 1990s.

Sean McVay (born January 24, 1986) is an American football coach who is the head coach for the Los Angeles Rams.

Over the following seasons, McVay led the Rams to two Super Bowl appearances and won the franchise's first since 1999 in Super Bowl LVI.

His success in Los Angeles is credited with spawning the "Sean McVay effect", in which NFL teams were more inclined to hire younger head coaches.

McVay was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Tim and Cindy McVay.

Sean's father, Tim, played football as a defensive back at Indiana University.

His family lived in Dayton until Sean was six years old.

The season also marked the Rams' first winning record since 2003 and first playoff appearance since 2004.

McVay graduated from Marist School in Brookhaven, Georgia, in 2004.

He was a four-year starter at Marist as a quarterback and defensive back for the War Eagles high school football team and the first player in school history to amass 1,000 yards rushing and passing in consecutive seasons.

McVay totaled 2,600 yards rushing and 40 rushing touchdowns during his career and also passed for 2,500 yards and 18 touchdowns, leading the War Eagles to a 26–3 record, including a 14–1 record and state championship his senior year, when he was also named the Georgia 4A Offensive Player of the Year over future NFL Hall of Fame wide receiver Calvin Johnson.

McVay attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he played college football as a wide receiver from 2004 to 2007, earning Miami's Scholar-Athlete Award in 2007.

McVay recorded 39 receptions for 312 yards for the RedHawks in his college career.

The hiring made him the youngest head coach in the NFL's modern era, surpassing Lane Kiffin, who was 31 years, 267 days old when hired by the Oakland Raiders in 2007, and the youngest since 27-year-old Art Lewis became interim head coach of the Rams in 1938.

McVay would remain the youngest head coach in the NFL until the New England Patriots hired Jerod Mayo on January 12, 2024, exactly seven years to the day after McVay was hired by the Rams.

He graduated from Miami in 2008 with a B.S. in Health and Sports Studies.

McVay began his coaching career as an assistant wide receivers coach with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2008 under head coach Jon Gruden.

In 2009, McVay was the quality control/wide receivers coach for the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League (UFL).

With Florida, McVay first worked under Jay Gruden, who was the Tuskers offensive coordinator.

In 2010, McVay was hired as the assistant tight ends coach for the Washington Redskins under head coach Mike Shanahan.

The following season, McVay was promoted to tight ends coach, a position he held through the 2013 season.

On January 14, 2014, McVay was promoted to offensive coordinator by new Redskins head coach Jay Gruden.

Over the next three seasons, McVay had a direct impact in developing Kirk Cousins into a franchise quarterback.

The Rams went on to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars on the road by a score of 27–17 in Week 6 and the Arizona Cardinals by a score of 33–0 in an NFL International Series game for the team's first shutout win since 2014, as well as raising their record to 5–2 for the first time since 2004 (the last time the team made the playoffs) and a first-place lead in the NFC West.

Becoming the full-time starter in 2015, Cousins led the Redskins to back-to-back winning seasons, throwing for over 9,000 yards and more than 50 touchdowns.

In 2016, Cousins was named to the Pro Bowl for the first time.

McVay's success with Cousins made him an attractive head coaching candidate and following the season was interviewed by both the Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers.

McVay inherited a Rams team that finished 2016 in last place in points, total yards, touchdown passes and first downs, a team later ranked as having the second-worst offense of the decade based on Football Outsiders' DVOA (Defense-adjusted Value Over Average) statistic.

He became the youngest NFL head coach in the modern era when he was hired by the Rams in 2017 at the age of 30.

McVay is also the youngest head coach to win a Super Bowl and be named NFL Coach of the Year.

Prior to becoming Rams head coach, he served as a tight ends coach and offensive coordinator for the Washington Redskins.

Within his first year, McVay turned a Rams team that had the league's lowest scoring offense the previous year into the top-scoring team of 2017 en route to a division title.

On January 12, 2017, McVay was hired to become the 28th head coach of the Los Angeles Rams at the age of 30 years, 361 days.

On January 19, 2017, veteran coach Wade Phillips was hired as defensive coordinator.

On February 8, 2017, McVay hired Matt LaFleur as his offensive coordinator.

LaFleur had previously worked with McVay in Washington when McVay was tight ends coach and LaFleur was quarterbacks coach.

On September 10, 2017, McVay made his regular-season head coaching debut against the Indianapolis Colts, and led the Rams to a 46–9 victory in a home game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Following a Week 2 27–20 loss to McVay's former team, the Washington Redskins, the Rams pulled off a close 41–39 road victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Thursday Night Football.

During Week 4, the Rams turned a 16–24 deficit into a 35–30 upset road victory over the Dallas Cowboys, but they lost their next game to NFC West division rival Seattle Seahawks at home by a score of 16–10.

Regardless, in just five games, the Rams offense scored a total of 142 (later 151) points, a league leader and franchise high.