Jan. 12, 2026, 7:50 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
In a follow-up to Monday’s initial report that former Miami Dolphins<\/a> head coach Mike McDaniel would interview<\/a> with the Detroit Lions<\/a> for its offensive coordinator vacancy this week, the date of McDaniel’s interview is now set.<\/p>\n Per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, McDaniel will interview with the Lions<\/a> for its OC job on Tuesday. Detroit is working to replace John Morton, who was fired after just one season<\/a> as the Lions’ offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n McDaniel is widely respected as one of the NFL’s top offensive minds. During his head coaching tenure with the Dolphins<\/a>, Miami ranked as the NFL’s No. 1 offense and its No. 2 scoring offense in the 2023 season.<\/p>\n In 2025, the Dolphins had the NFL’s No. 13 rushing offense and one of the league’s top five rushers in running back De’Von Achane, who ran for 1,350 yards and eight touchdowns on 238 carries.<\/p>\n McDaniel finished with a 35-33 regular-season record with the Dolphins. Prior to joining Miami, McDaniel spent five seasons with\u00a0San Francisco<\/a>\u00a0where he served as the 49ers’ run game coordinator from 2017-20, and one as offensive coordinator in 2021.<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n With McDaniel as the 49ers’ offensive coordinator in 2021, San Francisco finished with the NFL’s No. 7 total offense (375.7 yards per game), the No. 7 rushing offense (127.4 rushing), the No. 12 passing offense (248.3 passing) and as the No. 13 scoring offense (25.1 points).<\/p>\n For more\u00a0Lions<\/a>\u00a0coverage, follow us on X,\u00a0@TheLionsWire<\/a>, and give our\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0page a like.\u00a0Follow Josh on X,\u00a0@JoshOnLions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 12, 2026, 7:50 p.m. ET In a follow-up to Monday’s initial report that former Miami Dolphins head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[95878,682,217,7,216,251,2087,6,52959,96502,95882,97667,96242,95893,95951,95896,95888,95895,95906,96192,95884,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-672938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-dolphins","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-miami","13":"tag-miami-dolphins","14":"tag-miamidolphins","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sstssportsnfllions","17":"tag-sstsnlions","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagdevon-achane","20":"tag-tagdetroit-lions","21":"tag-tagfacebook","22":"tag-tagmiami-dolphins","23":"tag-tagnational-sports","24":"tag-tagnfl","25":"tag-tagnfl-hub","26":"tag-tagoverall-positive","27":"tag-tagsan-francisco","28":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","29":"tag-tagsports-news","30":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115885482351328638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672938","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=672938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}