{"id":690191,"date":"2026-01-20T02:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/690191\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T02:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:55:18","slug":"report-kansas-city-chiefs-likely-to-hire-eric-bieniemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/690191\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Kansas City Chiefs likely to hire Eric Bieniemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to a report from the NFL Network\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2013364110864330896\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tom Pelissero<\/a>, the Kansas City Chiefs intend to hire current Chicago Bears running backs coach Eric Bieniemy as their new offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It was reported that the Chiefs asked permission to interview Bieniemy earlier today, and with the familiarity he has with the organization \u2014 he coached there from 2013 to 2022 \u2014 K.C. is moving quickly to find Matt Nagy\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nagy, the Bears\u2019 head coach from 2018 to 2021, is a leading candidate to land the Tennessee Titans\u2019 head coaching job, but he\u2019s also out of contract with the Chiefs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This would be the second time Bieniemy took over for Nagy as Kansas City\u2019s offensive coordinator, having replaced Nagy when he left for the Bears\u2019 job in \u201818.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 2025 season was Bieniemy\u2019s first year coaching in the Windy City, and he helped running backs D\u2019Andre Swift and Kyle Monangai become the only pair of backs in the league to each rush for over 750 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a report from the NFL Network\u2019s Tom Pelissero, the Kansas City Chiefs intend to hire current&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[374,692,391,87017,2493,7,6],"class_list":["post-690191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-bears","tag-bears","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears","tag-chicago-bears-coaching-staff","tag-chicagobears","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115925177295534258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690191","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=690191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}