{"id":685759,"date":"2026-01-18T04:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685759\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T04:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:13:10","slug":"jaguars-coach-reportedly-taking-job-at-stanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685759\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars’ coach reportedly taking job at Stanford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan. 17, 2026, 9:50 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

There will have to be a change made to the Jacksonville Jaguars’<\/a> coaching staff on the offensive side of the football.<\/p>\n

According to Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports, Jaguars<\/a>‘ assistant offensive line coach and run game specialist Keli’i Kekuewa is going to be hired by Stanford as their offensive line coach.<\/p>\n

The 2025 season was Kekuewa’s first in Jacksonville, as he was brought onto the coaching staff by Liam Coen.<\/p>\n

From 2021-2023, he was the Seattle assistant offensive line coach before joining Panthers<\/a>‘ coach Dave Canales in Carolina for the 2024 season in that same role.<\/p>\n

This season, the Jaguars’ offensive line unit ranked ninth in ESPN’s<\/a> pass-block win rate metric and sixth in run-block win rate. The depth of this unit was tested throughout the year due to injuries, but the offensive line continued to produce almost regardless of what the configuration was.<\/p>\n

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Shaun Sarrett<\/a> is still the Jaguars’ offensive line coach. Ryan O’Halloran of the Florida Times-Union mentioned Trevor Mendelson, an offensive assistant this season, as an in-house candidate to fill Kekuewa’s role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 17, 2026, 9:50 p.m. ET There will have to be a change made to the Jacksonville Jaguars’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7,212,125,2401,213,6,31186,95933,95882,96059,96027,96511,95892,95936,95935,95895,95897,95884,95883,96241,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-685759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","13":"tag-jaguars","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","16":"tag-sstsnjaguars","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcarolina-panthers","19":"tag-tagcollege-sports","20":"tag-tagdave-canales","21":"tag-tagespn-inc","22":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","23":"tag-tagliam-coen","24":"tag-tagnfl-hub","25":"tag-tagoverall-negative","26":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","27":"tag-tagsports-news","28":"tag-tagstanford-university","29":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115914159285938628","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685759","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=685759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}