After Will Harriger left the Dallas Cowboys coaching staff this offseason to become the quarterbacks coach for the
Carolina Panthers, the team can reveal that the Cowboys have signed Steve Shimko, the offensive coordinator from
Boston College, as an offensive assistant.
Following two seasons together in Seattle in 2018 and 2019, Shimko rejoins offensive coordinator Brian
Schottenheimer in Dallas. Before taking a position as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Garden
City Community College in 2016, Shimko worked as a graduate assistant at Rutgers, Western Michigan, and Georgia.
Before spending two seasons with the Seahawks, he would occupy that role for two years. Then Boston College
called, where he was the offensive coordinator for the Eagles this past season, the tight ends coach in 2020 and 2021,
and the quarterbacks coach in 2022.
The Eagles finished 68th in overall offense (381.2 yards per game) and 80th in FBS (24.8% points per game) during
his one season as coordinator. The team defeated SMU, ranked No. 23, in the Fenway Bowl to finish 7-6 overall.
When head coach Jeff Hafley abruptly left Boston College this winter to take a job as the defensive coordinator for
the Green Bay Packers, the program rapidly entered a coaching carousel. Shimko, the offensive coordinator, was left
with the option of either giving over control of the offense to Bill O’Brien, the team’s new head coach, or looking for
another job. On Thursday, the franchise announced the hire of O’Brien, a former NFL head coach and coordinator.
Shimko is the first assistant on the offensive end of the field and the sixth
coach to join Mike McCarthy’s staff this offseason. The new faces on the
coaching staff this offseason include newly appointed defensive
coordinator Mike Zimmer, defensive line coach Jeff Zgonina, defensive
run game coordinator Paul Guenther, and assistant defensive line coach Greg Ellis.
