Jan. 30, 2026, 12:17 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
ESPN’s Bill Barnwell<\/a> set out and ranked the 37 coaching hires across the NFL that took place between 2021 and 2025. The Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> were represented three times on this list.<\/p>\n No surprise, but leading the way among Jaguars<\/a>‘ coaches was Liam Coen, who came in at No. 11 overall.<\/p>\n In Coen’s first season at the helm, he took the Jaguars from four wins to 13 and won the AFC South title. Jacksonville finished the regular season on an eight-game winning streak, which included the Coen-led offense averaging almost 33 points per game during that span.<\/p>\n There are plenty of reasons to believe that the Jaguars are now set up for sustained success under Coen and GM James Gladstone.<\/p>\n Coen deserves credit for getting more out of players he inherited from the prior regime, including Lawrence, Washington and running back\u00a0Travis Etienne Jr<\/a>,” Barnwell wrote. “Jaguars fans should be excited about Coen and what he might do in Year 2.”<\/p>\n Expert NFL picks: Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n Not too far behind Coen in these rankings was Doug Pederson, who was listed at No. 15.<\/p>\n Before the 4-13 season in 2024, Pederson’s Jaguars went 9-8 in his first two seasons. This included going to the playoffs and winning a game in 2022.<\/p>\n “Through November 2023, Pederson was 17-11 as the Jags coach,” wrote Barnwell.<\/p>\n Then rounding out Barnwell’s coaching rankings, not surprisingly, was Urban Meyer. In short, and as we all know, this was a disaster.<\/p>\n Meyer didn’t even make it through one season in Jacksonville. He was 2-11 before being fired.<\/p>\n “Meyer feuded with his players and coaches, abandoned the team plane to\u00a0fly back to his bar<\/a>\u00a0in Ohio, set first pick Trevor Lawrence’s development back a year, signed\u00a0Tim Tebow<\/a>\u00a0to play tight end, showed\u00a0little familiarity<\/a>\u00a0with who was even playing for his team and was\u00a0fired<\/a>\u00a0after just 13 games,” wrote Barnwell. “Your high school coach might have done a better job.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 30, 2026, 12:17 p.m. ET ESPN’s Bill Barnwell set out and ranked the 37 coaching hires across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[95878,7,212,125,2401,213,6,31186,95933,96028,95882,95892,95936,95935,95896,95888,95895,95899,95884,95883,96046,95934,97351,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-718836","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-tagafc-south","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagespn-inc","20":"tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","21":"tag-tagliam-coen","22":"tag-tagnational-sports","23":"tag-tagnfl","24":"tag-tagnfl-hub","25":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","26":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","27":"tag-tagsports-news","28":"tag-tagtravis-etienne-jr","29":"tag-tagtrevor-lawrence","30":"tag-tagurban-meyer","31":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115989228292673582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718836","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=718836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}