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Joey Boese enters his fifth season with the Bengals in 2023, and again will lead the team's strength and conditioning program.

Joey Boese enters his fifth season with the Bengals in 2023, and again will lead the team's strength and conditioning program.

Since arriving in Cincinnati in 2019, Boese and his staff have led the physical development of an influx of new and young Bengals players. That development was particularly evident in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic prohibited training at the team facility during the offseason and limited it during the regular season. Boese and his staff adjusted and helped onboard a wave of new additions, including the team's seven-player draft class that went on to play 96 combined games as rookies.

During the team's run to an AFC North Division title, AFC Championship and a berth in Super Bowl LVI in 2021-22, Boese's program helped Cincinnati finish the regular season with three wins in its last four games to clinch a playoff spot. His staff was instrumental in the return of QB Joe Burrow, who after missing the final six games of his rookie season in 2020 due to a knee injury, came back to set single-season team records for passing yardage (4611), TDs (34) and passer rating (108.3). Burrow was named the AP NFL Comeback Player of the Year, the second player in Bengals history to receive the honor.

In 2019, his first season in Cincinnati, Boese's program contributed to a late-season surge, with the Bengals improving on offense and defense the second half of the year. Offensively, the team averaged 70.6 more rushing yards per game in the second half of the season (130.1) than the first (59.5). Defensively, Cincinnati notched 11 more sacks the second half of the year, and allowed 84.1 fewer yards per game (57.5 fewer rushing, 26.6 fewer passing yards).

Prior to joining the Bengals, Boese spent three years (2016-18) as the head football strength and conditioning coach at the University of Illinois, where he helped the Illini develop one of the most powerful rushing offenses in the Big Ten Conference. In 2018, the team's 244.2 yards per game on the ground ranked second in the Big Ten.

Boese spent the previous four seasons as head strength and conditioning coach at Fresno State University from 2012-15. In his first two seasons at Fresno State, Boese helped the Bulldogs to back-to-back conference titles, a first for the program since 1992-93. Boese also helped develop 14 All-Mountain West first-team performers and six NFL draft picks, including Oakland Raiders QB Derek Carr and Green Bay Packers WR Davante Adams. Fresno State's most success came in 2013, Boese's second year with the program, when the Bulldogs tied the school record for wins (11) and reached as high as No. 13 in the USA Today Coaches Poll.

Boese broke into the coaching ranks as assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Texas A&M football team from 2008-11. During his time with the Aggies, Boese coached seven future first-round NFL draft picks, including Denver Broncos all-pro LB Von Miller and QB Ryan Tannehill. He also worked alongside several members of the current Bengals coaching staff, including head coach Zac Taylor, WRs coach Troy Walters and assistant OL coach Ben Martin.

Between August 2009 and July 2011, Boese worked as the head strength and conditioning coach for Texas A&M's baseball team, helping the Aggies reach the 2011 College World Series.

Boese attended the University of Wisconsin, where he played defensive back on the football team from 1998-2001. He was a four-year letterman, two-year starter and three-time Academic All-Big Ten selection. He helped the Badgers to back-to-back Rose Bowl victories (1998 and '99) and a Sun Bowl victory (2000). After college, he played four seasons (2003-06) in the Canadian Football League for the Calgary Stampeders. After his playing days, Boese served as a defensive video intern with the Nebraska football team in 2007.

Boese was born in Chicago, Ill., but raised in Southern California. He earned a bachelor's degree in communication arts from Wisconsin in 2002, and finished his master's of science in health, physical education and recreation at Emporia State University in '08. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS), and a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCA).

Boese and his wife, Aimee, have three sons — Sam, Ben and Max. His last name is pronounced "bo-ZAY."