When the Chicago Bears hired Matt Nagy as their head coach back in January, the young coach wanted to bring someone along who had NFL head-coaching experience and could ease the transition for him. That came in the form of former Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress. Hired as an offensive consultant for the Bears, Childress has stayed largely out of the limelight in Chicago since his hiring. Now, it appears he has another head-coaching job lined up in the future.

According to ESPN's Darren Rovell, Childress has been named the head coach for the Atlanta team for the new Alliance of American Football league that is set to debut in February. Atlanta is the second city to name a head coach with the Orlando team having recently hired Steve Spurrier as its head coach.

The Alliance of American Football (AAF) was upstarted by Charlie Ebersol, the son of Dick Ebersol, and the league is expected to begin a week after this year's upcoming Super Bowl and the teams will have 50-man roster. Former Indianapolis Colts general manager Bill Polian was brought in to oversee the league with former Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu overseeing the player side of the league. The league is set to have eight teams and games will be featured on CBS and the CBS Sports Network. The league will run for 10 weeks with a four-team playoff and a championship game set to take place on the weekend of April 26.

It is unknown how this will impact Childress and his time with the Bears. According to Brad Biggs of the Chicago Tribune, Childress' contract with the Bears only runs through "until about the start of the regular season."

Childress and Nagy worked together in Kansas City and the veteran coach was expected to retire after the Chiefs were knocked out of the playoffs. Roughly a week after Childress decided to retire from the Chiefs and the NFL, he opted to join Nagy and the Bears as an offensive consultant.

A native of Aurora, Illinois and graduate of Eastern Illinois, Childress has been a coach since 1978. He coached at Illinois between 1978 and 1984 before jumping into the NFL as the quarterbacks coach of the Indianapolis Colts. He then worked in college football between 1986 and 1998 at Northern Arizona, Utah and Wisconsin. He then joined Andy Reid's staff in Philadelphia as the quarterbacks coach between 1999 and 2001 before becoming the offensive coordinator in 2002.

In 2005 he became the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings and went 39-35 in his five seasons there. After a brief stint as the offensive coordinator of the Cleveland Browns in 2012, he re-joined Reid in Kansas City as the spread game analyst between 2013 and 2015. He was promoted to Assistant Head Coach in 2017.

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Considering his deal reportedly is a limited one in Chicago, his decision to take this job should not impact his current status with the organization.