February 26th, 2025
By Stephen Juza
As we enter the 2025 NFL offseason, all the head coaching positions are finally filled. Kellen Moore was the last head coach to be hired, as the New Orleans Saints had to wait until Moore’s season with the Eagles was over before offering him the job. With the Eagles victory of the Chiefs, Moore was announced just a few short days later. With all seven spots now filled, how did each team do in finding the next leader for their team?
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#1 - Ben Johnson, Chicago Bears
After turning down opportunities to take a head coaching role last season, Ben Johnson was the top coaching prospect this offseason, and for good reason. After leading the explosive Lions offense to the top seed in the NFC, the Lions were fantastic from start to finish this regular season. Johnson has been instrumental in helping to turn around the Lions the last several years, and the Bears will hope that he can work his magic for another NFC North team. His big test will be working with second-year quarterback Caleb Williams in hopes that he can unleash his potential as a former top draft pick.
#2 - Mike Vrabel, New England Patriots
After sitting out the 2024 season, Vrabel returned to the NFL as the head coach of the New England Patriots. This offseason, it seemed like the most obvious landing spot for Vrabel, who spent many years playing for the Patriots during his career. Vrabel was a very good coach for the Titans for many years, leading the team to back-to-back division titles for the first time since the 1960s. One of the best coaching hires Vrabel made this offseason was bringing back Josh McDaniels to the team as their offensive coordinator. McDaniels has had great success as an offensive coordinator in the league, and working with Drake Maye will set up the franchise for the future.
#3 - Pete Carroll - Las Vegas Raiders
Another coach who sat out the 2024 season, Pete Carroll returns to the sidelines for his fourth NFL head coaching job. Carroll was fired after 2023’s season as the Seattle Seahawks head coach as the team had grown quite stagnant. Despite his early success with the team, he led the team to only three more playoff games in his last nine seasons in Seattle.
One thing that stands out with the AFC West now that Carroll is leading the Raiders - it may be the most impressive collection of head coaches in league history. All four in the division have won either a Super Bowl or a College Championship, and three have appeared in at least one more. All four coaches are accustomed to winning, so it will be an interesting division to watch as the teams try and navigate a murderer’s row of talent.
#4 - Kellen Moore - New Orleans Saints
Moore was the last one to be hired this offseason, with his fantastic offensive game plan for the Eagles taking them to victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. Moore has been a good coach in the league for the last few years, but leaving the Cowboys after the 2022 season may have significantly boosted his career. After struggling in 2023 as the offensive coordinator for the Rams, he found his way to the Eagles. Now, the Saints hope he can instill his winning ways on the team. His first major task may be to find a new quarterback to lead the offense after he was non-committal in a recent interview about Carr’s role with the team.
#5 - Aaron Glenn - New York Jets
While Glenn was a top coaching prospect the last two cycles, we are a little hesitant on his success with the Jets. The biggest task facing Glenn on the Jets will be establishing some sort of offensive identity, and he will always have to outsource that responsibility to another coach. He’s tasked Tanner Engstrand, an up-and-coming coach he was previously with the Lions, but with the complete overhaul of the offense coming in the offseason, it could be a tall task for the coaching staff. The Jets consistently have hired defensive-minded head coaches, and it has led the offense to consistently be the weak link on the team.
#6 - Liam Coen, Jacksonville Jaguars
Coen is certainly one of the hardest to gauge his success this offseason. Not only is he one of the least experienced coaches in the group, he’s not even held the same position for longer than a year since 2018-2019. It’s impossible to measure how he has been able to impact a team’s performance year-after-year because he has constantly jumped between the NFL and college the last several years. While that is a source of concern, his last season as offensive coordinator was a major success. The Buccaneers offense was one of the best in the league, so if he can bring that a little further north to Jacksonville, the team will be happy.
#7 - Brian Schottenheimer, Dallas Cowboys
Rounding out the list is Brian Schottenheimer. The long-time coach in the league felt like a desperate hire to try and maintain some level of consistency after Jerry Jones fumbled the negotiations with former head coach Mike McCarthy. It’s not just us who thinks it’s a risky hire - Jones said as much during the introductory press conference. Schottenheimer has been an exceedingly average coordinator much of his career, and the Cowboys should have had better success this offseason in finding their next coach. The Cowboys have several key playmakers locked down for several years, but their preferred choice as a head coach was Schottenheimer. We don’t expect him to coach out his four-year contract with the Cowboys.