{"id":692871,"date":"2026-01-21T04:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/692871\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T04:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:34:33","slug":"chiefs-moving-on-from-two-more-offensive-assistant-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/692871\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs moving on from two more offensive assistant coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Assistant running backs coach Mark DeLeone and offensive assistant Kevin Saxton will not return to the Chiefs\u2019 staff in 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamMcDowell11\/status\/2013786754029895909?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">confirmed by McDowell<\/a>. With these two vacanies added, there will be at least five new faces among Kansas City\u2019s offensive coaches next season: Bieniemy, wide receivers coach Chad O\u2019Shea, and the eventual hire to coach the running back position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Before joining the Chiefs for 2025, DeLeone was a defensive assistant coach for every NFL job he held, including the quality control job he held for the first three seasons of head coach Andy Reid\u2019s tenure in Kansas City. He earned the right to be a position coach in 2018 and led the inside linebackers for the final season of defensive coordinator Bob Sutton\u2019s time here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The switch to offense only lasted one year in Kansas City for DeLeone, while Saxton will leave the organization after spending three seasons on staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assistant running backs coach Mark DeLeone and offensive assistant Kevin Saxton will not return to the Chiefs\u2019 staff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,46290,922,2438,2437,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-692871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-coaching-staff","13":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","14":"tag-kansascity","15":"tag-kansascitychiefs","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115931228753224368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692871","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=692871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}