Jan. 20 (UPI) — The Tennessee Titans are finalizing an agreement to hire Robert Saleh as their head coach.<\/p>\n
Sources told NFL.com<\/a>, ESPN<\/a> and The Athletic<\/a> about the expected hire.<\/p>\n The Titans, who fired former coach Brian Callahan in October, announced Monday that Saleh and Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Matt Nagy were finalists for the job.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Callahan led the Titans to a 4-19 record, including a 1-5 start in 2025. The 2025 Titans totaled the second fewest yards and third fewest points in the NFL.<\/p>\n They allowed the fifth most points on defense.<\/p>\n The 49ers defense ranked 20th under Saleh. They owned the NFL’s 11th best run defense.<\/p>\n Saleh posted a 20-36 record in four seasons as head coach of the New York Jets from 2021 to 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 20 (UPI) — The Tennessee Titans are finalizing an agreement to hire Robert Saleh as their head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[1811,2792,7,6496,110,255,6,6043,252,526,394,2411,4045,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-692720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-brian-callahan","9":"tag-defensive-coordinator","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-head-coach","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","13":"tag-new-york-jets","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-robert-saleh","16":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","17":"tag-tennessee","18":"tag-tennessee-titans","19":"tag-tennesseetitans","20":"tag-the-titans","21":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115930902448376986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692720","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=692720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}