The San Francisco 49ers were fortunate to have Robert Saleh for the 2025 season. On Tuesday, the ninth head coaching job just became available after Mike Tomlin stepped down after 19 seasons as the Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 head coach.<\/p>\n
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You\u2019ll never forget the last thing that you saw, and that\u2019s Saleh holding the No. 1 seed to 13 points in the regular-season finale and the No. 3 seed to 19 points in their house. At the same time, he was shorthanded at several positions, not to mention the defensive starter who was lost during the game.<\/p>\n
Saleh has been requested for five interviews in Arizona, Atlanta, Baltimore, Miami, and Tennessee. There will be a laundry list of candidates for Pittsburgh\u2019s opening. The more jobs available, the less likely it is that Saleh returns as the 49ers\u2019 defensive coordinator in 2026.<\/p>\n
The coaching cycle this season isn\u2019t viewed as strongly as it was last year, when Ben Johnson, Mike Vrabel, and Liam Coen were all available. Saleh\u2019s experience, reputation, and resume should land him a job. It\u2019s probably going to be up to Saleh whether he wants to leave or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers were fortunate to have Robert Saleh for the 2025 season. On Tuesday, the ninth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,6,1161,252,87419,1137,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-674810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-coaching-staff","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115889638179901989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674810","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=674810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}