Jan. 16, 2026, 12:18 p.m. MT<\/p>\n
Denver Broncos<\/a> defensive coordinator Vance Joseph is expected to be a coveted head coach candidate once the team’s season wraps up (hopefully not until after the Super Bowl).<\/p>\n Joseph credited the team’s overall success as a reason why he’s drawn so much interest from teams seeking new head coaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cYes, it\u2019s flattering, but it speaks to the entire program,” Joseph said earlier this week. “Again, I think when teams want to hire a coach from a winning program, they want the recipe. So it speaks to Coach [Sean] Payton, it speaks to the ownership, it speaks to George [Paton], our players. It\u2019s everyone\u2019s reward, so to speak. It\u2019s strange that way.<\/p>\n “Obviously, when teams are struggling and they want to make a change, they look towards the teams who are winning. How we flipped here in the last three years, it\u2019s pretty special. It\u2019s a way to do it. That secret lies with us, so they want that secret.\u201d<\/p>\n For now, Joseph’s focus remains on the NFL playoffs. The Broncos<\/a> are set to host the Buffalo Bills<\/a> in the divisional round on Saturday, and Denver will host the AFC Championship game next week if they make it past Buffalo.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been on the back burner,\u201d Joseph said, via the Denver Post’s Patrick Saunders<\/a>. \u201cFor me, winning is a priority. What happens after that happens. I can\u2019t control that. … I\u2019ve been focused the entire time on winning games for the Broncos.\u201d<\/p>\n If Joseph ends up landing a head coach job with an NFL team, Denver would receive a third-round compensatory draft pick<\/a> in 2026 and another third-round pick in 2027 as part of the\u00a0NFL’s Rooney Rule\u00a0that rewards teams for developing minority coaches and executives.<\/p>\n Social: Follow\u00a0Broncos Wire<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter\/X<\/a>!\u00a0Did you know:\u00a0These 25 celebrities are Broncos fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 16, 2026, 12:18 p.m. MT Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Vance Joseph is expected to be a coveted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2062],"tags":[95878,232,231,258,2426,7,6,95879,95880,95882,96033,95886,95893,95896,95888,95895,95899,96071,95884,95883,95894,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-682576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-broncos","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflbroncos","16":"tag-sstsnbroncos","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagbuffalo-bills","19":"tag-tagdenver-broncos","20":"tag-tagfacebook","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagnfl-hub","24":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","25":"tag-tagsmg-timely","26":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","27":"tag-tagsports-news","28":"tag-tagtwitter","29":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115906597913464768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682576","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=682576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}