{"id":694449,"date":"2026-01-21T19:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/694449\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:18:13","slug":"falcons-request-to-interview-49ers-exec-josh-williams-for-open-gm-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/694449\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons request to interview 49ers exec Josh Williams for open GM job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 21, 2026, 9:35 a.m. PT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a href=\"\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> have officially been eliminated from the postseason after falling to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/seattle-seahawks\/361\" data-autotag=\"91fb7995-f6cd-4aa3-adbc-98eb39d76a79\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> in on Saturday at Lumen Field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While some teams are looking for a new head coach and\/or general manager, the 49ers are set in both of those departments. With that, they have a few people working underneath those positions who are candidates for jobs with other teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Among those candidates is 49ers director of scouting and football operations Josh Williams. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2014000032098267213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">According to ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter<\/a>, the Atlanta Falcons have requested to interview Williams for their open general manager job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Williams joined the 49ers scouting department in 2011 as an assistant. He served as an area scout for five years and a national scout for two before taking on his current role in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Atlanta is not the first team to request to speak with Williams, as the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/miami-dolphins\/345\" data-autotag=\"22ef43a4-dc5a-43ce-87cd-912a7e348a81\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> did as well before they hired Jon-Eric Sullivan.<\/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\">More 49ers: <a href=\"http:\/\/ninerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/niners\/2026\/01\/20\/49ers-upton-stout-deommodore-lenoir-impressed-rookie-season\/88264879007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">49ers&#8217; $89 million CB shouts out teammate after strong rookie season<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 21, 2026, 9:35 a.m. PT The San Francisco 49ers have officially been eliminated from the postseason after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,95878,7,6,1161,252,2624,2623,96189,96190,95882,95892,95951,95895,95899,95977,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-694449","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-accessfree","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","14":"tag-sanfrancisco","15":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","16":"tag-sstssportsnflniners","17":"tag-sstsnniners","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagespn-inc","20":"tag-tagmiami-dolphins","21":"tag-tagnfl-hub","22":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","23":"tag-tagseattle-seahawks","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115934704829192957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694449","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=694449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}