{"id":704465,"date":"2026-01-25T18:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/704465\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T18:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T18:08:19","slug":"robert-saleh-takes-his-first-member-of-the-49ers-coaching-staff-with-him-to-the-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/704465\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Saleh takes his first member of the 49ers\u2019 coaching staff with him to the Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator and newly named Tennessee Titans head coach Robert Saleh needs to fill out his coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to NBC Sports\u2019 Matt Maiocco, Saleh is taking the 49ers\u2019 assistant defensive line coach, Greg Scruggs, to be the new Titans defensive line coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Scruggs played under Saleh with the Seattle Seahawks and was with Saleh in New York for a season with the Jets before spending this past season with Saleh in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Scruggs might not be the last position coach Saleh poaches from the 49ers. The move means whoever the new defensive coordinator is may have to bring in an external candidate. Depending on how many coaches Saleh takes, those position coaches could be from multiple teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If that coordinator ends up being Gus Bradley, who Kyle Shanahan believes to be the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninersnation.com\/san-francisco-49ers-news\/155610\/did-kyle-shanahan-tip-his-hand-on-who-the-next-49ers-defensive-coordinator-is\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">obvious in-house candidate<\/a>,\u201d then Bradley will have a large pool of candidates to select from, as he\u2019s spent time with Seattle, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Indianapolis as a coordinator or head coach in the NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator and newly named Tennessee Titans head coach Robert Saleh needs to fill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[7,6,87419,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-704465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-coaching-staff","11":"tag-tennessee","12":"tag-tennessee-titans","13":"tag-tennesseetitans","14":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115957079106836540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704465","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=704465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}