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COACHING

Charles London enters his first year with the Patriots as an offensive analyst. He most recently served as the quarterbacks coach of the New York Jets in 2025, and he reunites with Mike Vrabel after serving as the pass game coordinator/quarterbacks coach for the Tennessee Titans in 2023. The two were also on staff with the Houston Texans from 2014-17.

Prior to his time with the Jets, London was the quarterbacks coach for the Seattle Seahawks in 2024. QB Geno Smith broke four franchise records that season, setting new single-season marks for highest completion percentage (70.4; fifth-best in the NFL), passing yards (4,320; fourth-most in the NFL), pass attempts (578) and completions (407). League-wide, Seattle's quarterback room ranked eighth in passing yards per game (236.5).

London spent the 2021-22 seasons as quarterbacks coach with the Atlanta Falcons. London spearheaded the early development of QB Desmond Ridder in 2022, and in 2021, QB Matt Ryan completed 375 of 560 passes (67.0%) for 3,968 yards and 20 touchdown passes. Under London's tutelage, Ryan led three game-winning drives and helped Atlanta finish with a 7-2 record in games decided by one score, which tied for the NFL's second-best winning percentage in such games.

Prior to joining Atlanta, London spent three seasons (2018-20) as the running backs coach for the Chicago Bears. During his time with the Bears, he worked with a trio of running backs who reached 1,000 scrimmage yards in at least one season—Jordan Howard (2018), Tarik Cohen (2018) and David Montgomery (2019 and 2020). Cohen and Montgomery posted career-high rushing totals during his tenure.

In 2020, Montgomery set career highs for rushing yards (1,070), receiving yards (438) and total touchdowns (10). Montgomery was the only running back with at least 1,000 rushing yards and 400 receiving yards in the NFL and became the first Bears running back to rush for a touchdown in five consecutive games since Neal Anderson in 1990. In two seasons with London, Montgomery rushed for 1,959 yards, the eighth-most in the NFL over that span.

In London's first year in Chicago in 2018, Howard nearly surpassed the 1,000-yard milestone for the third consecutive season with 935 rushing yards and 9 rushing touchdowns. Cohen led the team in receptions with 71 for a team-high 725 yards and 5 touchdowns, while also rushing 99 times for 444 yards and 3 touchdowns.

Prior to his time in Chicago, London spent four seasons as the running backs coach for the Houston Texans (2014-17), where he was a part of a team that won back-to-back AFC South division titles in 2015 and 2016 and finished with a winning record in three consecutive seasons for the first time in franchise history. In each of London's first three seasons with the team, the Texans ranked third in the AFC and sixth in the NFL in rushing yards per game.

His NFL coaching career began with the Bears in 2007, first in a quality control role on offense and then as an offensive assistant/assistant wide receivers coach in 2008-09. After spending the 2010 campaign with the Philadelphia Eagles as a pro scout, his first stint with the Titans came in 2011 as an offensive assistant/quality control coach.

He also brings collegiate coaching experience, as he spent two seasons (2012-13) at Penn State as the running backs coach and recruiting coordinator. During his two-year tenure, running back Zach Zwinak rushed for 1,989 yards, the third most in the Big Ten over that span. London's first coaching gig came at his alma mater, Duke University, where he was a graduate assistant from 2004-05 and was named running backs coach in 2006.

PLAYING

London played running back at Duke University from 1993-96, where he totaled 354 yards and five touchdowns on 84 carries, adding 70 yards on 11 receptions.

PERSONAL

London is a native of Dunwoody, Ga. He graduated in 1997 from Duke after majoring in political science and minoring in African American studies. In 2006, he earned a master's degree from Duke in humanities.