{"id":695547,"date":"2026-01-22T05:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/695547\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T05:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:21:21","slug":"beat-writer-doesnt-anticipate-andy-weidl-landing-falcons-job-but-2026-is-prime-time-for-him-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/695547\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat Writer Doesn’t ‘Anticipate’ Andy Weidl Landing Falcons’ Job, But 2026 Is ‘Prime Time For Him To Leave’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers have already had an extremely busy offseason, as the franchise continues to narrow its search for the next head coach. However, Pittsburgh is far from the only team looking to fill a vacancy, not just in a coaching role either. As the league-wide game of musical chairs starts to figure itself out, the Steelers are at risk of losing their assistant GM, Andy Weidl.<\/p>\n

Late Tuesday night, Mark Kaboly reported that Weidl would be interviewing<\/a> for the Atlanta Falcons GM opening. Speaking on Wednesday, Kaboly didn\u2019t sound very sure that Weidl would actually land that job. But he does mark the next offseason as a time when Weidl could leave the Steelers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t anticipate that happening. I think it\u2019s honestly more of a next year type of conversation than this year. It\u2019s his first real interview, right? For general manager, normally it does not happen that way. Of course, it could, but I wouldn\u2019t anticipate him leaving. Next year, it would be a prime time for him to leave. His contract may be up, I\u2019m not 100-percent sure on that,\u201d Kaboly said Wednesday on 93.7 The Fan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There have only been two GM vacancies this offseason, with that pool being much less crowded than the head coach carousel. Miami had one earlier in the cycle, but that position has already been filled. The Falcons are now the only team looking to fill that role.<\/p>\n

Andy Weidl has long been held in high regard in NFL circles. Yet this is his first known interview for a GM position. Many look at him as someone who could be a GM in the future<\/a>, which is likely to happen.<\/p>\n

However, it may not be in Atlanta. The Falcons have a new structure after just promoting their former franchise quarterback, Matt Ryan, to the President of Football role. Atlanta also just hired former Browns\u2019 head coach Kevin Stefanski for its head coach opening. The Falcons will likely look into plenty of other names, and as the only current GM opening, that\u2019s going to make things difficult for Weidl to land the job.<\/p>\n

Yet Kaboly is right that Andy Weidl is an attractive option for the future. He has many connections across the NFL, and although the Steelers haven\u2019t been especially successful in recent years, he and Omar Khan have made some solid moves together and kept the franchise competitive. If Weidl doesn\u2019t land the Falcons\u2019 job, he very well could be a hot name on the GM market next offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers have already had an extremely busy offseason, as the franchise continues to narrow its search…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2074],"tags":[8740,4033,223,254,2554,224,7,5241,6,1256],"class_list":{"0":"post-695547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-93-7-the-fan","9":"tag-andy-weidl","10":"tag-atlanta","11":"tag-atlanta-falcons","12":"tag-atlantafalcons","13":"tag-falcons","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-mark-kaboly","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-omar-khan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115937075746435248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695547","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=695547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}