Sean Mannion used to play for Sean McVay. Now he\u2019s competing against him to be next season\u2019s best NFL offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n
The Eagles hired Mannion to be their next offensive coordinator only three seasons after Mannion\u2019s final season as a quarterback. The Rams play at the Philadelphia Eagles in 2026, setting up a showdown between mentor and student.<\/p>\n
Mannion was a third round pick by the Rams in 2015 out of Oregon State, which is not an insignificant investment. But the Rams drafted Jared Goff in 2016, pushing Mannion down the pecking order and all but eliminating his future with L.A. after Jeff Fisher was fired. However, McVay liked Mannion enough to keep him through 2018 and Mannion even started the meaningless season finale game in 2017.<\/p>\n
He went back and forth between the Vikings and Seahawks for four years until retiring after the 2023 season. Mannion\u2019s been on a coaching rocket ship since then, going from Packers assistant in 2024 to QB coach in 2025 and now he\u2019s the OC of the Eagles, replacing the fired Kevin Patullo after one season.<\/p>\n
If all goes well, Mannion could be a rival head coach soon. Consider that another former backup QB, Kellen Moore, quickly leapfrogged from Eagles OC to Saints HC, although he had a lot more prior coaching experience.<\/p>\n
Many of you vividly remember Mannion as a Rams player. Now you can think of him as an important coach trying to beat them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Mannion used to play for Sean McVay. Now he\u2019s competing against him to be next season\u2019s best…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,4200,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-715236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams-news","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangelesrams","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115981257700588411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715236","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=715236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}