{"id":691006,"date":"2026-01-20T11:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/691006\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:19:21","slug":"kansas-city-chiefs-part-with-oc-matt-nagy-hire-eric-bieniemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/691006\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Chiefs part with OC Matt Nagy, hire Eric Bieniemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 19, 2026, 6:08 p.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">According to NFL insider Jordan Schultz, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" data-autotag=\"e91367c2-d7b8-4bec-9359-95947acd6b0e\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> are set to hire Eric Bieniemy to replace embattled offensive coordinator Matt Nagy, whose contract with the team will expire at the end of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">An experienced leader, Bieniemy rose to prominence as Kansas City&#8217;s offensive coordinator from 2018 until 2022, when he left the Chiefs to take a promotion with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/washington-commanders\/363\" data-autotag=\"a4fb178e-5fd0-440a-8a7b-b87aea742850\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Washington Commanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After serving as Washington&#8217;s assistant head coach &amp; offensive coordinator in 2023, Bieniemy took his talents to the college ranks for the 2024 season, securing a position with the UCLA Bruins in the same role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In 2025, Bieniemy was hired by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/chicago-bears\/326\" data-autotag=\"69c69e75-f807-4542-90d2-619e6d4a23b1\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Chicago Bears<\/a> to serve as their running backs coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While he is best remembered for his five-year tenure as second in command of head coach Andy Reid&#8217;s offense, Bieniemy also served as Kansas City&#8217;s running backs coach from 2013 until 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">His experience coaching under Reid should prove to be a valuable asset for the Chiefs as Kansas City looks to rebound from its disappointing 2025 regular-season campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 19, 2026, 6:08 p.m. CT According to NFL insider Jordan Schultz, the Kansas City Chiefs are set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[95878,346,7,118,110,2438,2437,6,96828,96829,95882,96089,96540,95896,95888,95895,95906,96071,95884,95883,96006,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-691006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-chiefs","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-kansas-city","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","13":"tag-kansascity","14":"tag-kansascitychiefs","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sstssportsnflchiefs","17":"tag-sstsnchiefs","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagchicago-bears","20":"tag-tagkansas-city-chiefs","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagnfl-hub","24":"tag-tagoverall-positive","25":"tag-tagsmg-timely","26":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","27":"tag-tagsports-news","28":"tag-tagwashington-commanders","29":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115927159072470421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691006","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=691006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}