The Arizona Cardinals continue to add names to their list of candidate targets to replace Jonathan Gannon as head coach. Gannon was fired on Monday after the Cardinals went 3-14 in 2025, losing 14 of their final 15 games and their final nine.
The latest name to emerge is Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley.
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According to SI.com’s Albert Breer, the Cardinals, along with the Atlanta Falcons and Tennessee Titans, submitted requests to interview Hafley for their vacant head coaching jobs. Hafley cannot interview until next week, as the Packers play this Saturday in the first round of the playoffs.
Hafley has been Green Bay’s defensive coordinator for the last two seasons. Before that, he was head coach at Boston College for four seasons after he was an assistant for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cleveland Browns and San Francisco 49ers from 2012-2018.
He is one of now eight candidates we know of.
Who are other candidates to replace Jonathan Gannon?
There are seven other known candidates, as of when this was published. The other seven are:
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Miami Dolphins DC Anthony Weaver
Denver Broncos DC Vance Joseph
San Francisco 49ers DC Robert Saleh
Seattle Seahawks OC Klint Kubiak
New England Patriots passing game coordinator and tight ends coach Thomas Brown
Kansas City Chiefs OC Matt Nagy
Former Atlanta Falcons head coach Raheem Morris
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This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: Arizona Cardinals request interview with Packers DC Jeff Hafley