Key Highlights
- The Tennessee Titans are finalizing a deal to hire San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh as their next head coach, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Monday night. Saleh, the former New York Jets coach, spent Monday in Tennessee with the Titans, and the sides impressed each other enough to move forward together, sources said. Tennessee also had completed an in-person interview with Matt Nagy on Monday. Saleh is set to become the 20th coach in Oilers/Titans history and the seventh since the team moved to Nashville in 1997.
- He'll take over a team that fired Brian Callahan in mid-October and finished 3-14 but has a young quarterback in Cam Ward, the No.
- 1 pick last year. The Titans' brass originally scheduled a virtual interview with Saleh on Sunday, but it elected to expedite the process by having him come to Nashville for an in-person meeting Monday after hosting Nagy, the Chiefs' offensive coordinator, earlier in the day. This will be Saleh's second stint as a head coach.
- He served as the Jets' coach from 2021 to 2024 after a four-year run as the 49ers' defensive coordinator that included a Super Bowl appearance after the 2020 season. Saleh's time with the Jets never got on track, even though New York traded for future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers in hopes of jump-starting the coach's third season.
- Rodgers ruptured his left Achilles in the 2023 season opener, and the Jets finished 7-10.
