{"id":693520,"date":"2026-01-21T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/693520\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T10:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:48:17","slug":"49ers-news-it-wouldnt-be-a-49er-offseason-without-a-new-defensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/693520\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers News: It wouldn\u2019t be a 49er offseason without a new defensive coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI need a cart,\u201d Kittle said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to be able to walk this one off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The San Francisco 49ers tight end knew immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6962084\/2026\/01\/11\/george-kittle-49ers-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">he\u2019d torn his right Achilles tendon<\/a> after making a 6-yard catch midway through the second quarter. Kittle said it \u201cfelt like someone put a shotgun up against my calf and pulled the trigger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Schwartz has taken part in two interviews for the Browns\u2019 head-coaching vacancy, so keep an eye on that one. If the Browns pass over Schwartz for the top position, it would seem unlikely he would return as a member of that staff.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That is so much easier said than done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Christian McCaffrey, Trent Williams and George Kittle have been and will continue to be huge pieces of the 49ers\u2019 puzzle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At some point, the 49ers will have a different running back, left tackle and tight end. But not next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But you might be proven correct. Who knows?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A year or so from now, maybe hindsight will determine that the 49ers should have gone in a different direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But coming off a 12-win season and with some of their absolute best players slated to return from injuries, the 49ers need to keep the veteran core together and integrate another good draft class into the roster.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI need a cart,\u201d Kittle said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to be able to walk this one off.\u201d The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,52307,7,6,1161,252,1137,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-693520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-49ers-links","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115932699923465377","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693520","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=693520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}