{"id":719049,"date":"2026-01-31T12:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/719049\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T12:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:38:39","slug":"chargers-interview-jim-leonhard-for-defensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/719049\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers Interview Jim Leonhard for Defensive Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chargers on Wednesday confirmed they have interviewed Jim Leonhard for their defensive coordinator position.<\/p>\n<p>Leonhard has two seasons of NFL coaching experience and was most recently the Broncos Assistant Head Coach and Defensive Pass Game Coordinator 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 Denver Broncos Assistant Head Coach and Defensive Pass Game Coordinator<\/p>\n<p>2024 Denver Broncos Defensive Pass Game Coordinator and defensive backs coach<\/p>\n<p>2023 Illinois senior football analyst<\/p>\n<p>2022 Wisconsin Interim Head Coach<\/p>\n<p>2017\u201322 Wisconsin Defensive Coordinator and defensive backs coach<\/p>\n<p>2016 Wisconsin defensive backs coach<\/p>\n<p>2014 Cleveland Browns safety<\/p>\n<p>2013 New Orleans Saints safety<\/p>\n<p>2013 Buffalo Bills safety<\/p>\n<p>2012 Denver Broncos safety<\/p>\n<p>2009-11 New York Jets safety<\/p>\n<p>2008 Baltimore Ravens safety<\/p>\n<p>2005-07 Buffalo Bills safety<\/p>\n<p>Leonhard played college football and graduated from the University of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chargers on Wednesday confirmed they have interviewed Jim Leonhard for their defensive coordinator position. Leonhard has two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[37,241,7,1014,262,2444,2443,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-719049","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-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-losangeleschargers","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115989755096434376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719049","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=719049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}