{"id":706582,"date":"2026-01-26T15:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/706582\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T15:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:12:22","slug":"philip-rivers-buffalo-bills-reportedly-withdraws-from-consideration-for-nfl-coaching-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/706582\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Rivers Buffalo Bills reportedly withdraws from consideration for NFL coaching job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philip Rivers has withdrawn from consideration for the job as head coach of the NFL\u2019s Buffalo Bills, according to multiple<\/a> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old Rivers \u2014 who played three December games with the Indianapolis Colts this past season \u2014 interviewed with the Bills last Friday. He has spent the last five years as head football coach at St. Michael Catholic School in Fairhope, but has never coached above the high school level.<\/p>\n

An Athens High School graduate, Rivers played from 2005-2020 with the Colts and San Diego\/Los Angeles Chargers, but had not suited up for a game in nearly five years before returning to Indianapolis last month. He told AL.com\u2019s Mark Heim on Jan. 8 that while he was happy at St. Michael, the idea of coaching in the NFL intrigued him.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re talking about one of 32 jobs in the world at the highest level and certainly getting my feet back into it the last four weeks was exciting,\u201d Rivers said Jan. 8 on \u201cThe Opening Kickoff\u201d on Mobile\u2019s WNSP Radio. \u201cBut that\u2019s not something I\u2019ve set out to do like, \u2018Oh shoot, that\u2019s what I want to do.\u2019 I said openly and honestly I love it here and hope to be here a long time.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you never rule anything out. We\u2019ll see where that all goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buffalo is looking for a head coach after abruptly firing Sean McDermott on Jan. 19, two days after 33-30 overtime loss to the Denver Broncos in an AFC Division Playoff game. McDermott coached the Bills to eight playoff berths in nine seasons, but never made it to the Super Bowl. <\/p>\n

Rivers is 42-16 in five seasons at St. Michael, reaching the Class 4A semifinals in both 2024 and 2025. His son, Gunner, is a rising senior and the Cardinals\u2019 starting quarterback \u2014 with scholarship offers<\/a> from numerous major-college programs \u2014 heading into 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philip Rivers has withdrawn from consideration for the job as head coach of the NFL\u2019s Buffalo Bills, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[2005,7,2004,392,2381,6,31185],"class_list":{"0":"post-706582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-colts","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-indianapolis","11":"tag-indianapolis-colts","12":"tag-indianapoliscolts","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nflraw25"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115962049028969705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706582","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=706582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}