{"id":716185,"date":"2026-01-30T09:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/716185\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:35:31","slug":"report-chiefs-are-hiring-two-assistant-coaches-from-college-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/716185\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Chiefs are hiring two assistant coaches from college ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Thursday morning, two separate reports provided more information on the new coaching staff being assembled by the <a href=\"http:\/\/ArrowheadPride.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pagan is coming off his seventh season as the wide receivers coach for the Villanova Wildcats after two years as an offensive assistant at the school. One of the most successful players he coached in his time was wide receiver Jaaron Hayek, who earned a spot on the Chiefs\u2019 90-man offseason roster after standing out at rookie minicamp in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cox is a well-known defensive backs coach collegiately; he has led the cornerbacks or safeties for a college football program every year since 2017. He has participated in the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship three times, including twice with the Chiefs during the 2022 and 2023 offseasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday morning, two separate reports provided more information on the new coaching staff being assembled by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,46290,922,2438,2437,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-716185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-coaching-staff","13":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs-news","14":"tag-kansascity","15":"tag-kansascitychiefs","16":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115983373070151158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716185","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=716185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}