Jan. 26, 2026, 11:53 a.m. ET<\/p>\n
Jacksonville Jaguars’<\/a> offensive coordinator Grant Udinski<\/a> has withdrawn his name from consideration for the Cleveland Browns<\/a> head coaching job.<\/p>\n So why, after going through the initial interview process, did Udinski decide against potentially taking over the Browns?<\/p>\n Well, there’s likely a lot of factors in play, but there seem to be two big ones in particular that stand out.<\/p>\n For one, it was reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter<\/a> that Udinski was given a pay raise for the 2026 season to remain in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n The Jaguars<\/a> are also giving Udinski the flexibility to remain in the mix for the Buffalo Bills<\/a>‘ head coaching opening.<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n Secondly, perhaps this wasn’t the right fit for Udinski. Across the NFL landscape, Udinski is viewed as an up-and-coming future head coach. Chances are, with each passing year, demand for Udinski will only grow, which means more options for him to consider.<\/p>\n We saw now-Bears<\/a> head coach Ben Johnson take a similar approach in 2024. Rather than taking a head coaching job, he remained with the Lions<\/a> as their coordinator for another season before joining the Bears.<\/p>\n Regardless of what the reasons were, the Jaguars will be happy to have Udinksi around for another season. He was a big part of the offense’s success this past season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 26, 2026, 11:53 a.m. ET Jacksonville Jaguars’ offensive coordinator Grant Udinski has withdrawn his name from consideration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7,212,125,2401,213,6,31186,95933,95882,96033,96089,95957,96242,95892,95936,95896,95888,95895,95899,95884,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-708391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","13":"tag-jaguars","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","16":"tag-sstsnjaguars","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagbuffalo-bills","19":"tag-tagchicago-bears","20":"tag-tagcleveland-browns","21":"tag-tagdetroit-lions","22":"tag-tagespn-inc","23":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","24":"tag-tagnational-sports","25":"tag-tagnfl","26":"tag-tagnfl-hub","27":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","28":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","29":"tag-tagsports-news","30":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115965906401652088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708391","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=708391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}