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Andy Heck enters his 31st year in the NFL in 2022. He begins his 19th season as an NFL coach, including his 10th as the Chiefs offensive line coach. His time in the NFL includes a 12-year career as an offensive lineman.

Andy Heck enters his 31st year in the NFL in 2022. He begins his 19th season as an NFL coach, including his 10th as the Chiefs offensive line coach. His time in the NFL includes a 12-year career as an offensive lineman.

In 2021, Heck had an offensive line full of new faces, including T Orlando Brown, OL Joe Thuney, G Kyle Long and C Austin Blythe, in addition to draft picks C Creed Humphrey and OL Trey Smith. Rookies Humphrey and Smith started all 17 regular season games in 2021, becoming the 17th and 18th players in franchise history to start all regular season games in their rookie season. Humphrey and Smith are the third pair of teammates to both start all regular season games in their rookie campaign. The group ranked tied for third in the NFL allowing just 28 sacks all season. Following the season, Brown earned his third Pro Bowl selection.

In 2020, Heck led an offensive line that was marred by injuries, seeing 12 different starters at various positions along the line throughout the season while still ranking fifth in sacks allowed with 24.0. Chiefs T Eric Fisher was selected to his second-career Pro Bowl (2018), while enjoying one of the top seasons of his career. He was even able to get into the endzone, scoring on a two-yard pass from QB Patrick Mahomes, joining Mark Adickes and Joe Valerio as the only offensive linemen to catch touchdown passes in team history.

In 2019, Heck led an offensive line unit that finished third in the NFL in sacks allowed with 25.0 in the regular season. T Mitchell Schwartz started every game at RT, extending his current streak with the most straight starts for an offensive tackle to 128. Schwartz was named Second-Team All-Pro at right tackle.

The 2018 season featured Heck's offensive line protecting NFL MVP quarterback Patrick Mahomes who threw for 5,097 yards and 50 touchdowns, which is only the second time in NFL history. On the way to an AFC Championship berth, the offensive line only gave up 34.0 sacks (regular and post season), which ranked tied for sixth in the league. T Eric Fisher was selected to his first Pro Bowl under Heck's tutelage. Injuries marred the offensive line, but Heck was able to coach young offensive linemen Austin Reiter and Andrew Wylie to 14 combined starts. First-year OL Andrew Wylie was awarded Mack Lee Hill Award, which is annually presented to the Chiefs' top rookie or first-year player in remembrance of the late Mack Lee Hill.

During the 2017 season, Heck coached seven different starting offensive linemen with six different combinations, paving the way for the running backs group to record a combined 1,903 yards. Behind Heck's offensvie line, rookie RB Kareem Hunt led the league with 1,327 rushing yards. QB Alex Smith threw for a career-high 4,042 and both Smith and Hunt made the Pro Bowl in 2017.

In 2016, the offensive line proved its versatility once again as eight different linemen filled a starting role throughout the season. Behind a Heck-coached offensive line, RB Spencer Ware had 921 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns while RB Charcandrick West rushed for 293 yards and one touchdown.

In 2015, nine different offensive line combinations including eight different offensive linemen made up the starting lineup. Rookie Mitch Morse started all but one game at center, and T Eric Fisher solidified the left tackle spot during the club's 11-game winning streak.

During the 2014 season, the line helped RBs Jamaal Charles and Knile Davis carry the scoring load for the Chiefs. The two scored 22 of the Chiefs 40 total touchdowns, which ranked first among a pair of teammates across the NFL. Additionally, Charles surpassed Priest Holmes as the Chiefs all-time leading rusher with 6,856 rushing yards. Charles' 1,033 rushing yards in 2014 was his third consecutive year over 1,000 yards and second consecutive behind Heck's line.

In 2013, Heck led Kansas City's offensive line to help Charles reach 1,287 rushing yards, enough for third-most in the NFL. T Branden Albert made his first appearance in the Pro Bowl under Heck's guidance.

Prior to joining the Chiefs staff, Heck served nine years on the Jacksonville Jaguars coaching staff as the assistant offensive line coach (2005) and offensive assistant/assistant offensive line coach (2004) before being promoted to offensive line coach (2006-12).

In 2011, Jacksonville's offensive line paved the way for RB Maurice Jones-Drew to rush for 1,606 yards to earn the NFL rushing title. In 2010, the Jaguars boasted the third-ranked rushing offense in the NFL, averaging 149.7 yards per game, including a 4.7 yards per carry average to rank fifth in the league. The team racked up 2,395 rushing yards to rank as the second-most in team history at that point.

In 2006 and 2007, the offensive line led the offense to the two highest single-season rushing totals in franchise history to date and two of the three lowest sack totals. The Jaguars set the single-season franchise record for rushing yards (2,541) in 2006 and allowed only 30.0 sacks, the second-fewest in team history.

Prior to Jacksonville, Heck served three seasons on the University of Virginia coaching staff, the first two seasons as a graduate assistant and the final year as tight ends coach. He tutored All-America tight end Heath Miller, who set numerous Atlantic Coast Conference tight end records for receiving and scoring. Miller was a first-round pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2005.

Heck played in the NFL for 12 seasons (1989-2000) as an offensive lineman. He finished his playing career with the Washington Redskins, where he played for two seasons. As the starting left tackle in 1999, he blocked for an offense that ranked second in the NFL. From 1994 to 1998, Heck was a five-year starter for the Chicago Bears. In 1995, he gave up no sacks as part of an offensive line that yielded the fewest sacks in the NFL. Heck was drafted in the first round (15th overall) by the Seattle Seahawks, where he was a unanimous All-Rookie selection in 1989. A starter for all five years with the Seahawks, he played three seasons without missing a snap.

A 1989 graduate of Notre Dame, Heck was a first-team All-America selection and he co-captained the 1988 national championship team that finished 12-0. He was a tight end for his first three seasons at Notre Dame before moving to tackle in spring drills in his senior season.

Education: ­Notre Dame (B.A. 1989). Born: Fargo, N.D. Family: Wife - Jennifer; Children - Jonathan, Charlie, Molly and Evelyn.