All the open NFL head-coaching positions are now spoken for, meaning Vance Joseph has been left out.

Sources said Joseph, who has been on the job since 2023, is expected to remain the Broncos’ defensive coordinator after he was regarded as a hot head-coaching prospect following Denver’s regular season.

Arizona on Sunday hired Los Angeles Rams offensive coordinator Mike LaFleur as head coach, and sources said Las Vegas plans to hire Seattle offensive coordinator and former Broncos assistant Klint Kubiak for its job. The Raiders must wait until after the Seahawks face New England next Sunday in Super Bowl LX before their move is official.

There ended up being 10 NFL head coach openings. Eight had been filled before Sunday’s maneuvers by the Cardinals and Raiders.

So Broncos head coach Sean Payton will now not be looking for a new defensive coordinator. With Payton having fired offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi last Tuesday, sources said the leading candidate to replace him is offensive pass game coordinator-quarterbacks coach Davis Webb. The Denver Gazette reported Sunday that he has had an official interview for the job.

After the Broncos concluded the regular season Jan. 4 and earned a first-round playoff bye, Joseph had remote talks that week with Arizona, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Baltimore, the New York Giants and Tennessee. The Falcons, Ravens, Giants and Titans all filled their openings before Joseph became eligible to have an in-person interview following Denver’s 10-7 loss to New England in the AFC Championship Game on Jan. 25. However, Joseph did not have such an interview with the Cardinals or Raiders.

After being the Broncos’ head coach from 2017-18 and going 11-21, Joseph had been the Cardinals’ defensive coordinator from 2019-22. That prompted speculation that Joseph could be a strong candidate to return to Arizona as head coach after a season in which the Broncos went 14-3 and ranked No. 2 in the NFL in total defense and No. 3 in scoring defense.

“I think there would be a lot of things to like about him being a leader of your organization,’’ Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner told The Denver Gazette on Jan. 8 while endorsing Joseph to again be an NFL head coach.

Warner, who played for the Cardinals from 2005-09 and continues to live in the Phoenix area, has remained close to the organization. So has Rod Graves, the Cardinals’ vice president of football operations from 1997-2002 and general manager from 2003-12.

Graves is executive director of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, which works with the NFL on minority hiring. That includes dealing with the Rooney Rule, which requires teams to interview at least two diversity candidates for head coach openings.

“He’s on the A list of candidates and that is regardless of his position as a minority,’’ Graves, who talked to the Cardinals about Joseph’s candidacy, told The Denver Gazette on Jan. 7.

As it turned out, of the 10 openings for a head coach, the only one going to a diversity candidate was the Titans’ hiring of San Francisco defensive coordinator Robert Saleh. Saleh, a former New York Jets head coach, is an Arab American of Lebanese descent.

Among others to have called for Joseph to again be an NFL head coach was former Broncos quarterback, offensive coordinator and head coach Gary Kubiak. When Kubiak was Houston’s head coach, he had Joseph as his defensive backs coach for a 2011-13 stint.

“I think he should (again be a head coach),’’ Gary Kubiak, Denver’s head coach from 2015-16, told The Denver Gazette in November.

Interestingly, one of the jobs Joseph interviewed for will be filled by Gary Kubiak’s son. Klint was a Broncos offensive assistant from 2016-18 and their passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2022.