{"id":660813,"date":"2026-01-07T10:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/660813\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:03:25","slug":"falcons-request-president-of-football-interview-with-49ers-director-of-scouting-and-football-operations-josh-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/660813\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons request president of football interview with 49ers director of scouting and football operations Josh Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

So now we have another candidate in the mix in the form of Josh Williams, a longtime scout with the San Francisco 49ers who has spent the past two seasons as their director of scouting and football operations; he\u2019s spent 14 years with the 49ers overall and began his career in the organization when Jim Harbaugh was running the show. In that role, Williams \u201cdirects pro and college scouting efforts, supports player development, and assists in contract negotiations,\u201d per the team\u2019s website<\/a>. Williams is well-regarded enough to be in the mix for the general manager role in Miami, where he\u2019s familiar with head coach Mike McDaniel, and would be a fine hire in that role in Atlanta, as well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fair to say Williams seems like a long shot for the president of football role, however, which the Falcons appear to have created with Matt Ryan in mind. Cynical as it may be to say it, the team has appeared locked in on Ryan even before they announced the new role, which means interviews like Williams will be seen essentially as checked boxes so the Falcons can say they\u2019ve interviewed more than one candidate and satisfied the Rooney Rule. That\u2019s a shame because Williams is an interesting candidate for this role, given that he\u2019s overseeing scouting and working on contracts for one of the best organizations in the sport, and would likely parlay that experience with the 49ers into thoughtful work and a new perspective for a team that needs both badly. As much as I love the idea of Ryan riding to the rescue for this franchise again, I\u2019d like to think that if Williams is simply the more impressive candidate, that the Falcons will pivot and hire him; perhaps they\u2019ll surprise us.<\/p>\n

If Williams doesn\u2019t land this job with the Falcons, perhaps he could be in play for a role in the front office. Given that Miami is also chasing him and that he has that strong connection with McDaniel, however, Williams likely won\u2019t have to settle in the likely event the Falcons hire Ryan as their president of football. We\u2019ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So now we have another candidate in the mix in the form of Josh Williams, a longtime scout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2591,2554,224,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-660813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlanta-falcons-news","11":"tag-atlantafalcons","12":"tag-falcons","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115853250056202571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}