{"id":712711,"date":"2026-01-29T00:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/712711\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T00:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:44:25","slug":"chargers-interview-chris-oleary-for-defensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/712711\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers Interview Chris O&#8217;Leary for Defensive Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chargers on Wednesday confirmed they have interviewed Chris O&#8217;Leary for their defensive coordinator position.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Leary has one season of NFL coaching experience and was most recently the Western Michigan Defensive Coordinator and safeties coach in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Bookmark the <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/news\/defensive-coordinator-search-candidates-confirmed-interviews-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chargers Defensive Coordinator Candidate Tracker<\/a> for the latest news.<\/p>\n<p>2025 Western Michigan Defensive Coordinator and safeties coach<\/p>\n<p>2024 Los Angeles Chargers safeties coach<\/p>\n<p>2021-23 Notre Dame defensive backs coach (safeties)<\/p>\n<p>2020 Notre Dame graduate assistant<\/p>\n<p>2018-19 Notre Dame defensive analyst<\/p>\n<p>2017 Florida Tech safeties coach<\/p>\n<p>2015-16 Georgia State graduate assistant<\/p>\n<p>2011-14 Indiana State wide receiver<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Leary played college football and graduated from Indiana State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chargers on Wednesday confirmed they have interviewed Chris O&#8217;Leary for their defensive coordinator position. O&#8217;Leary has one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[37,241,7,34,38,1014,262,2444,2443,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-712711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-app-homepage","9":"tag-chargers","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-homepage-cp","12":"tag-homepage-headlines","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangeleschargers","17":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115975623019877299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712711","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=712711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}