Highest-Paid NFL Head Coaches Today

NFL head coaches have some of the largest salaries in pro sports.

Highest-Paid NFL Head Coaches

Football has separated itself from the pack of professional sports leagues in North America. In 2020, the NFL's 32 teams generated $12.2 billion in revenue. That's $4 billion more than the NBA and more than triple the annual revenues of the NHL and MLB.

That surge of money has been the driving force behind skyrocketing salaries for NFL head coaches, who have guaranteed contracts as opposed to the signing bonus-heavy deals the league's top players get.

These are the highest-paid coaches in the NFL today by annual salary.

30. Brandon Staley — $1.5 Million (Tie)

Age: 38

Current team: Los Angeles Chargers

Head coaching career: Los Angeles Chargers (2021-present)

Head coaching highlights: None

Bottom line: Brandon Staley was coaching junior college football in Kansas in 2011. Ten years later, he's leading a billion-dollar NFL franchise. Ain't America great?

On that note, don't expect Staley to be around for long if he continues coaching like he has been in 2021 — essentially taking the offense away from Justin Herbert, one of the best young quarterbacks in the NFL.

Staley got the charge with the Chargers based largely on one great season as the defensive coordinator for the Rams, which pretty much underlines how great future Hall of Famers Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey really are.

*Some salaries are estimates only. Sourced salary information was missing for Houston Texans head coach David Culley, who is not included on the list.

30. Rich Bisaccia — $1.5 Million (Tie)

Age: 61

Current team: Las Vegas Raiders (interim)

Head coaching career: Las Vegas Raiders (2021-present)

Career highlights: None

Bottom line: Rich Bisaccia was named the interim head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after Jon Gruden resigned early in the 2021 season, when Gruden was just three years into a 10-year, $100 million contract.

It's the first head coaching job for Bisaccia in a career that stretches back to 1983, when he was hired as the defensive backs and special teams coach at Wayne (Nebraska) State College. Bisaccia won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as the special teams coordinator in 2002 under Gruden.

Once the Raiders get the mess sorted out with Gruden, who is suing the NFL, you can expect them to make a flashy hire at head coach.

29. Arthur Smith — $2 Million

Age: 39

Current team: Atlanta Falcons

Head coaching career: Atlanta Falcons (2021-present)

Head coaching highlights: None

Bottom line: Few coaches or athletes in professional sports can truly say they're not motivated by money. Atlanta Falcons head coach Arthur Smith is one of those people.

That's because Smith is the heir to an estimated $5.5 billion fortune as the son of FedEx founder Frederick Smith. Between the Smiths and Falcons owner Arthur Blank, the founder of Home Depot, the franchise has almost the entire supply chain cornered.

There is nothing appealing about this hire for Atlanta. Smith got the head coaching job based on his performance as offensive coordinator with the Tennessee Titans, and any 13-year-old with a PlayStation could have done that. Hand the ball off to Derrick Henry. How genius.

25. Dan Campbell — $3 Million (Tie)

Age: 45

Current team: Detroit Lions

Head coaching career: Miami Dolphins (2015 interim), Detroit Lions (2021-present)

Head coaching highlights: None

Bottom line: Dan Campbell played 11 seasons in the NFL as a tight end for four different teams, then broke into the coaching ranks as an assistant coach with the Miami Dolphins in 2010.

Campbell spent six seasons on the Dolphins' staff, including a stint as interim head coach in 2015 after Joe Philbin was fired.

Campbell was an assistant head coach and tight ends coach for five seasons with the New Orleans Saints before taking over one of the more thankless, downward-spiraling jobs in all of professional sports before the 2021 season — head coach of the Detroit Lions.

25. Nick Sirianni — $3 Million (Tie)

Age: 40

Current team: Philadelphia Eagles

Head coaching career: Philadelphia Eagles (2021-present)

Head coaching highlights: None

Bottom line: The son of a high school coach in New York, Nick Sirianni was a wide receiver at NCAA Division III powerhouse Mount Union and spent 12 seasons as an NFL assistant coach before the Philadelphia Eagles hired him to replace Super Bowl-winning coach Doug Pedersen.

Sirianni was the offensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts for three seasons before the Eagles hired him. Indianapolis made the playoffs twice in three years and went 1-2 in the postseason.

We don't get it either. Good luck to the Eagles and Sirianni though.

25. Brian Flores — $3 Million (Tie)

Age: 40

Current team: Miami Dolphins

Head coaching career: Miami Dolphins (2019-present)

Head coaching highlights: None

Bottom line: Brian Flores became one of the most respected assistant coaches in the NFL during 11 seasons with the New England Patriots, winning three Super Bowls before he was hired as head coach of the Miami Dolphins following the 2018 season.

Flores actually spent four seasons as a scouting assistant for the Patriots before he was added to the coaching staff, including another Super Bowl win in 2004. Flores was just the fourth Latino head coach in NFL history and is the second Bill Belichick assistant to coach the Dolphins following Nick Saban.

Flores failed to make the playoffs in his first two seasons in Miami.

25. Mike Vrabel — $3 Million (Tie)

Age: 46

Current team: Tennessee Titans

Head coaching career: Tennessee Titans (2018-present)

Head coaching highlights: None

Bottom line: Mike Vrabel was one of the more versatile players in the NFL in the last 30 years. The All-Pro linebacker who won three Super Bowls with the New England Patriots doubled as a pass-catching tight end and had 10 career receptions for 10 touchdowns, with two touchdowns in consecutive Super Bowl wins.

Vrabel spent three seasons as Ohio State's linebackers coach and four seasons as an assistant coach for the Houston Texans before he was hired to become head coach of the Tennessee Titans.

In three seasons, Vrabel has led the Titans to the playoffs twice, including a loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC championship game following the 2019 season.

23. Kyle Shanahan — $3.5 Million (Tie)

Age: 41

Current team: San Francisco 49ers

Head coaching career: San Francisco 49ers (2017-present)

Head coaching highlights: NFC champion (2019)

Bottom line: This seems like a steal for the San Francisco 49ers. We have to guess there are a lot of teams who would pay Kyle Shanahan a lot more than this to be their head coach.

The son of two-time Super Bowl-winning head coach Mike Shanahan, Kyle Shanahan was the Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator in 2016 as they made it to the Super Bowl and famously lost to the New England Patriots despite having a 28-3 lead midway through the third quarter.

Shanahan made it back to the Super Bowl following the 2019 season, when the 49ers lost to the Kansas City Chiefs.

23. Kevin Stefanski — $3.5 Million (Tie)

Age: 39

Current team: Cleveland Browns

Head coaching career: Cleveland Browns (2020-present)

Head coaching highlights: AP NFL Coach of the Year (2020), PFWA Coach of the Year (2020), Sporting News Coach of the Year (2020)

Bottom line: Kevin Stefanski is one of the NFL's top young head coaches. He was the offensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings for two seasons before being hired as head coach of the Cleveland Browns.

In his first season in Cleveland, Stefanski became the first head coach from the franchise to win NFL Coach of the Year honors since 1975 after leading the team to the playoffs for the first time in 12 years.

Stefanski joined the Vikings shortly after he finished an All-Ivy League career as a defensive back at Penn in 2004. He was an assistant coach for Minnesota in some capacity since 2006 before making the leap to the Browns.

21. Mike Zimmer — $4 Million (Tie)

Age: 65

Current team: Minnesota Vikings

Head coaching career: Minnesota Vikings (2014-present)

Head coaching highlights: None

Bottom line: Mike Zimmer won a Super Bowl as the assistant coach for the Dallas Cowboys in 1995 and was moved up to defensive coordinator in 2000 and served in that role under four separate head coaches — almost unheard of in any era of the NFL.

Zimmer was the defensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons for one season in 2007, then for the Cincinnati Bengals from 2008 to 2013, before he was hired by the Minnesota Vikings to be their new head coach.

It was his first head coaching job after 35 years as an assistant coach. In his first seven seasons with the Vikings, he's made the playoffs just three times.

21. Mike McCarthy — $4 Million (Tie)

Age: 58

Current team: Dallas Cowboys

Head coaching career: Green Bay Packers (2006-18), Dallas Cowboys (2020-present)

Head coaching highlights: Super Bowl champion (2010), Maxwell Football Club NFL Coach of the Year (2011)

Bottom line: Mike McCarthy is one of the most recognizable head coaches in the NFL thanks to his 13 seasons with the Green Bay Packers, where he won the Super Bowl following the 2010 season.

McCarthy, who started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at NCAA Division II Fort Hays State in 1987, took one season off after he was fired by the Packers in 2018 and was hired by the Dallas Cowboys as head coach before the 2020 season.

19. Zac Taylor — $4.5 Million (Tie)

Age: 38

Current team: Cincinnati Bengals

Head coaching career: Cincinnati Bengals (2019-present)

Head coaching highlights: None

Bottom line: Zac Taylor became one of the youngest head coaches in NFL history when he was hired by the Cincinnati Bengals in 2019. He's only 38 years old and in his third season with the team in 2021.

Taylor, a former quarterback at juco power Butler Community College and the University of Nebraska, has his own fortunes tied up in a signal-caller, 2020 No. 1 overall pick Joe Burrow. His play will likely determine whether or not Taylor is with the Bengals long-term.

Then again, Taylor may have a longer leash than he realizes. He replaced Marvin Lewis, who coached the Bengals for 16 seasons.

19. Frank Reich — $4.5 Million (Tie)

Age: 59

Current team: Indianapolis Colts

Head coaching career: Indianapolis Colts (2018-present)

Head coaching highlights: None

Bottom line: Frank Reich is forever linked to NFL history as the quarterback behind the greatest comeback of all time, when he led the Buffalo Bills back from 32 points down in the 1993 AFC wild-card game against the Houston Oilers. After trailing 35-3 in the third quarter, the Bills rallied for a 41-38 win in overtime.

Reich, who also at one point had the record for the biggest comeback in college football history, started his coaching career as an assistant for the Indianapolis Colts in 2008 and won a Super Bowl as the offensive coordinator of the Philadelphia Eagles following the 2017 season.

Reich was hired by the Colts in 2018 after New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels accepted the job, then backed out.

15. Vic Fangio — $5 Million (Tie)

Age: 59

Current team: Denver Broncos

Head coaching career: Denver Broncos (2019-present)

Head coaching highlights: None

Bottom line: Vic Fangio began his coaching career in 1979 as the linebackers coach at his alma mater, Dunmore (Pennsylvania) High School, and was hired for his first head coaching position 40 years later with the Denver Broncos.

In those 40 years, Fangio coached on the Division I level at the University of North Carolina and Stanford, in the USFL for the Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars, and as an NFL defensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers, Indianapolis Colts, Houston Texans, San Francisco 49ers and Chicago Bears before he was hired by the Broncos.

15. Matt LaFleur — $5 Million (Tie)

Age: 42

Current team: Green Bay Packers

Head coaching career: Green Bay Packers (2019-present)

Head coaching highlights: None

Bottom line: Say what you will about Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur's decision-making in pressure situations, but he had a good pedigree to become a head coach when he was hired by the Packers before the 2019 season.

Prior to making his way to the top spot, LaFleur served as an offensive coordinator on two different NFL teams — for the Los Angeles Rams under wunderkind head coach Sean McVay in 2017 and the Tennessee Titans under Mike Vrabel in 2018.

In his first two seasons with the Packers, LaFleur led the team to the NFC championship game both years.

15. Joe Judge — $5 Million (Tie)

Age: 39

Current team: New York Giants

Head coaching career: New York Giants (2020-present)

Head coaching highlights: None

Bottom line: Joe Judge has arguably the greatest NFL head coach and greatest college football coach of all time as his two mentors. He won three Super Bowls as an assistant coach to Bill Belichick on the New England Patriots and two national championships as an assistant coach to Nick Saban at the University of Alabama.

Even with that being sad, Judge was a strange hire for the New York Giants before the 2020 season, since he never served as an offensive or defensive coordinator on any level.

15. Robert Saleh — $5 Million (Tie)

Age: 39

Current team: New York Jets

Head coaching career: New York Jets (2021-present)

Head coaching highlights: None

Bottom line: Robert Saleh spent four seasons as an assistant coach in the college ranks before making the move to the NFL full time in 2006, eventually becoming the defensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers in 2017.

Saleh won an NFC championship with the 49ers in 2017 and was named head coach of the New York Jets before the 2021 season.

In an interesting twist, Saleh was one of two graduate assistants at Central Michigan in 2004 that would go on to become NFL head coaches alongside Matt LaFleur.

14. Kliff Kingsbury — $5.5 Million

Age: 42

Current team: Arizona Cardinals

Head coaching career: Texas Tech (2013-18), Arizona Cardinals (2019-present)

Head coaching highlights: None

Bottom line: Kliff Kingsbury is a great example of continually failing upward, no matter what the circumstance.

The former star quarterback at Texas Tech won a Super Bowl as a backup quarterback for the New England Patriots in his only season in the NFL in 2003, then was the offensive coordinator at Texas A&M when freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel won the Heisman Trophy in 2012.

Kingsbury spent six seasons as the head coach at Texas Tech, where he coached future NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes but was fired following the 2018 season and a 35-40 overall record, including 19-35 in Big 12 play.

For this, Kingsbury was named USC offensive coordinator but resigned one month later to become head coach of the Arizona Cardinals.

12. Matt Nagy — $7 Million (Tie)

Age: 42

Current team: Chicago Bears

Head coaching career: Chicago Bears (2018-present)

Head coaching highlights: AP NFL Coach of the Year (2018), PFWA Coach of the Year (2018)

Bottom line: Matt Nagy was a star quarterback at the University of Delaware in the late 1990s before playing in the Arena Football League for six seasons, then making his way to the NFL as an assistant coach.

Nagy stayed with the Eagles for five seasons before following Andy Reid to the Kansas City Chiefs. He served as an offensive coordinator for two seasons and was hired away by the Chicago Bears.

Nagy went 12-4 in his first season as the Bears' head coach and was named NFL Coach of the Year. He made the playoffs there in two of his first three seasons.

12. Ron Rivera — $7 Million (Tie)

Age: 59

Current team: Washington Football Team

Head coaching career: Carolina Panthers (2011-19), Washington Football team (2020-present)

Head coaching highlights: Two-time NFL Coach of the Year (2013, 2015)

Bottom line: Ron Rivera was an All-American linebacker at Cal before playing in the NFL for nine seasons, all with the Chicago Bears, including the 1985 Super Bowl championship team that had perhaps the greatest defense of all time.

Rivera was an assistant coach in the NFL for 14 years before he was hired as head coach of the Carolina Panthers in 2011. He stayed with the Panthers for nine seasons, including a Super Bowl appearance following the 2013 season.

8. Sean McDermott — $8 Million (Tie)

Age: 47

Current team: Buffalo Bills

Head coaching career: Buffalo Bills (2017-present)

Head coaching highlights: None

Bottom line: We fully expect Sean McDermott to be an NFL head coach for quite some time. That's what happens when you can turn around a moribund franchise like the Buffalo Bills, a place where it seemed like there was absolutely no hope.

In a crazy twist, McDermott was an All-Yankee Conference defensive back at William and Mary in the early 1990s, when he faced All-Yankee Conference wide receiver and fellow future NFL head coach Mike Tomlin in practice every day.

McDermott took over in Buffalo in 2017 and led the Bills to their first playoff appearance in 18 years. In his first four years as head coach, McDermott made the playoffs four times, including a loss in the AFC championship game following the 2020 season.

8. Bruce Arians — $8 Million (Tie)

Age: 69

Current team: Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Head coaching career: Temple (1983-88), Indianapolis Colts (2012 interim), Arizona Cardinals (2013-17), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2019-present)

Head coaching highlights: Super Bowl champion (2020), two-time AP NFL Coach of the Year (2012, 2014)

Bottom line: Even for all of Bruce Arians' accolades and accomplishments, we will likely remember him for one saying that has come to define his career — "No risk it, no biscuit."

Over and over again, Arians has been known for his guts as a head coach when it comes to calling plays and running a team. He is the only interim head coach to earn AP NFL Coach of the Year honors, which he did with the Indianapolis Colts as he filled in for Chuck Pagano during his leukemia treatments in 2012.

Arians won another AP Coach of the Year honor in 2014, after he led the Arizona Cardinals to the NFC championship game. He led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the second Super Bowl win in franchise history following the 2020 season.

8. Andy Reid — $8 Million (Tie)

Age: 63

Current team: Kansas City Chiefs

Head coaching career: Philadelphia Eagles (1999-2012), Kansas City Chiefs (2013-present)

Head coaching highlights: Super Bowl champion (2019), AP NFL Coach of the Year (2002), three-time Sporting News Coach of the Year (2000, 2002, 2018), Pro Football Weekly Coach of the Year (2002), four-time Maxwell Club NFL Coach of the Year (2000, 2002, 2010, 2018), NFC champion (2004)

Bottom line: Few coaches in NFL history have made as big of an impression on the game as Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid.

Reid won a Super Bowl as an assistant coach with the Green Bay Packers following the 1996 season before he was hired as the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in 1999. Reid led Philly to four consecutive NFC championship game appearances from 2001 to 2004, losing the first three before making it to the Super Bowl and losing to the New England Patriots.

Reid was hired by the Chiefs in 2012, led them to the AFC championship game following the 2018 season, won the franchise's first Super Bowl following the 2019 season, and made it back to the Super Bowl following the 2020 season, where they lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

8. Mike Tomlin — $8 Million (Tie)

Age: 49

Current team: Pittsburgh Steelers

Head coaching career: Super Bowl champion (2008), two-time AFC champion (2008, 2010), Motorola Coach of the Year (2008)

Head coaching highlights: Pittsburgh Steelers (2007-present)

Bottom line: In 14 years as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Tomlin has never had a losing record, made the playoffs nine times and played in the Super Bowl twice, becoming the youngest head coach to win a Super bowl following the 2008 season.

Tomlin, who was 36 years old when he won the Super Bowl, was an All-Yankee Conference wide receiver at William and Mary in the early 1990s, and spent six seasons as an assistant coach on the college level before making the move to the NFL.

Tomlin actually has two Super Bowl wins. He was the defensive backs coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when they won it all in 2002.

6. Matt Rhule — $8.5 Million (Tie)

Age: 46

Current team: Carolina Panthers

Head coaching career: Temple (2013-16), Baylor (2017-19), Carolina Panthers (2020-present)

Head coaching highlights: Big 12 Coach of the Year (2019), AP Big 12 Coach of the Year (2019), AAC champion (2016)

Bottom line: To appreciate Matt Rhule's coaching abilities, you have to understand the absolute state of disrepair the Baylor football program was in when he was hired as its head coach in 2016. The Bears were coming off one of the worst scandals in college football history.

Rhule went 1-11 in 2017, then 6-6 and won a bowl game in 2018, and 11-2 in 2019. He was named Big 12 Coach of the Year before the Carolina Panthers plucked him from the college ranks and made him one of the highest-paid coaches in the NFL.

Rhule's success in the NFL is still no sure thing, but he's in a situation in Carolina where he will get a little more rope than most first-time head coaches.

6. Sean McVay — $8.5 Million (Tie)

Age: 35

Current team: Los Angeles Rams

Head coaching career: Los Angeles Rams (2017-present)

Head coaching highlights: AP NFL Coach of the Year (2017)

Bottom line: As NFL fans, we will likely have Sean McVay in our lives for quite some time.

He was the youngest head coach in modern NFL history when he was hired by the Rams at just 30 years old in 2016 and is also the youngest head coach to qualify for the postseason, youngest to win a playoff game, youngest to appear in the Super Bowl and youngest to be named AP NFL Coach of the Year.

Five years after he was hired, McVay is still the youngest head coach in the NFL, and you can draw a direct line between McVay's success and the high number of young coaches in the league right now. In 2021, there were 12 coaches 45 years old or younger.

5. John Harbaugh — $9 Million

Age: 59

Current team: Baltimore Ravens

Head coaching career: Baltimore Ravens (2008-present)

Head coaching highlights: Super Bowl champion (2012), AP NFL Coach of the Year (2019), PFWA Coach of the Year (2019)

Bottom line: One thing we'd like to point out. Isn't it strange that most of the Super Bowl-winning coaches don't actually win coach of the year awards in the year they win a championship?

OK, moving on. John Harbaugh has been one of the NFL's top coaches for over a decade, winning a Super Bowl after the 2012 season when he coached against younger brother Jim Harbaugh, who was then the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers.

John Harbaugh has won over 60 percent of his games, and his eight road playoff wins are the most in NFL history.

4. Sean Payton — $9.8 Million

Age: 57

Current team: New Orleans Saints

Head coaching career: New Orleans Saints (2006-present)

Head coaching highlights: Super Bowl champion (2009), AP NFL Coach of the Year (2006)

Bottom line: Former Eastern Illinois quarterback Sean Payton had a knack for leading offenses early on. He still holds the school record with 509 passing yards in a single game.

That skill translated well to the coaching ranks, where he spent 18 years as an offensive assistant in college and the NFL before being named the head coach of the New Orleans Saints in 2006.

Payton had the Saints in the playoffs in his first year — they went 3-13 in 2005 — and won a Super Bowl three years later. His yearlong suspension over Bountygate in 2012 only seemed to make him more popular in coaching circles, and if it weren't for one of the worst officiating moments in NFL history, he may have another Super Bowl championship to his name.

3. Urban Meyer — $10 Million

Age: 57

Current team: Jacksonville Jaguars

Head coaching career: Bowling Green (2001-02), Utah (2003-04), Florida (2005-10), Ohio State (2012-18), Jacksonville Jaguars (2021-present)

Head coaching highlights: Three-time FBS National Champion (2006, 2008, 2014), three-time Big Ten champion (2014, 2017, 2018), two-time SEC champion (2006, 2008), two-time Mountain West champion (2003, 2004), Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year (2004), Home Depot Coach of the Year (2004), Sporting News National Coach of the Year (2004), Sporting News National Coach of the Decade 2000s, Sports Illustrated College Coach of the Decade 2000s, two-time Mountain West Coach of the Year (2003, 2004), MAC Coach of the Year (2001)

Bottom line: Because Urban Meyer has won at every stop of his coaching career, we can't blame him for thinking the NFL wasn't going to be any different.

Meywer was a three-time national champion on the college level — two at Florida and one at Ohio State. Then, he took over the Jacksonville Jaguars before the 2021 season and has continually stepped into one scandal after another since.

Even if Meyer doesn't last on the NFL level, it's not hard to see him returning to the college ranks in the future and once again rising to the top of the mountain.

2. Pete Carroll — $11 Million

Age: 70

Current team: Seattle Seahawks

Head coaching career: New York Jets (1994), New England Patriots (1997-99), USC (2001-09), Seattle Seahawks (2010-present)

Head coaching highlights: Super Bowl champion (2013), two-time FBS National Champion (2003, 2004), seven-time Pac-10 champion (2002-08), Home Depot Coach of the Year (2003), AFCA Coach of the Year (2003), NFL 2010s All-Decade Team

Bottom line: Were you surprised to learn Pete Carroll is 70 years old? We sure were.

Carroll is the rare breed of coach who was successful on the college level, winning a pair of national championships at USC (and another that was wiped off the books), along with winning a Super Bowl as the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks following the 2013 season.

What's wild about Carroll is it took a long time for him to achieve this type of success. He was fired as the head coach of both the New York Jets and New England Patriots before he landed at USC in 2001.

1. Bill Belichick — $12.5 Million

Age: 69

Current team: New England Patriots

Head coaching career: Cleveland Browns (1991-95), New England Patriots (2000-present)

Head coaching highlights: Six-time Super Bowl champion (2001, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016, 2018), nine-time AFC champion (2001, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2016-18), three-time AP NFL Coach of the Year (2003, 2007, 2010), NFL 2000s All-Decade Team, NFL 2010s All-Decade Team, NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team

Bottom line: Bill Belichick is in rare company in the history of not just NFL coaches but of coaches in any sport, alongside greats like John Wooden, Vince Lombardi, Bear Bryant, Pat Summitt and Phil Jackson.

Belichick, who has been the head coach of the New England Patriots since 2000, holds NFL records for head coaches with six Super Bowl wins, nine Super Bowl appearances and 31 playoff wins. That doesn't include two more Super Bowls he won as an assistant coach with the New York Giants.

Belichick isn't just the highest-paid NFL head coach. He's the highest-paid head coach in all of North American professional sports.