David Shaw was formally announced Tuesday as part of the Detroit Lions' 2025 coaching staff, his first formal coaching job since serving as Stanford's head coach from 2011-22, Eric Woodyard of ESPN reports.

Shaw, 52, was hired by the Lions as passing game coordinator under a revamped offensive staff headed by new offensive coordinator John Morton, whose hiring was previously announced.

Shaw, Stanford's all-time winningest coach who won four Pac-12 Coach of the Year awards, left the college ranks in 2022 and returned to the NFL last year. In 2024, he worked with the Denver Broncos in their front office as a senior personnel executive.

Shaw, who hasn't coached in the NFL since 2005, will be entering his 10th coaching season in the professional ranks. In 2005, he was the wide receivers coach for the Baltimore Ravens and was their quarterbacks and wide receivers coach from 2002-04.

Before Baltimore, he served as the Oakland Raiders' quarterbacks coach in 2001 and offensive quality control coach (1998-2000). In 1997, Shaw was an offensive quality control coach with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Shaw's father, Willie, served as the Lions' defensive backs coach from 1985-88.

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