{"id":721798,"date":"2026-02-01T16:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/721798\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T16:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T16:48:14","slug":"tennessee-titans-hire-new-york-giants-offensive-assistant-cade-knox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/721798\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Titans hire New York Giants offensive assistant Cade Knox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 1, 2026, 10:01 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulkuharsky.com\/news\/cade-knox-robert-saleh-titans-game-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Tennessee Titans have hired Cade Knox<\/a> as offensive assistant\/game management, bringing in a familiar face from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" data-autotag=\"9402befb-12da-4b26-905a-81ab1fea0850\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">New York Giants<\/a>&#8216; staff to advise new head coach Robert Saleh and offensive coordinator Brian Daboll on in-game decisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Knox spent the past four seasons (2022-2025) in the same role with the Giants under Daboll, serving as the game-day advisor focused on timeouts, challenges, and situational strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A Harvard psychology graduate who joined the Giants&#8217; analytics department in 2020 before his promotion, Knox helped integrate data-driven approaches during Daboll&#8217;s tenure, including direct headset communication for real-time game management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">His move to Tennessee follows Daboll&#8217;s own transition to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tennessee-titans\/336\" data-autotag=\"f9731e2d-52ac-46db-9b52-ab518dbe13b4\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Titans<\/a> as offensive coordinator, continuing a trend of former Giants assistants joining the organization amid Saleh&#8217;s staff rebuild. Knox replaces Rob Riederer, who was let go, and will act as Saleh&#8217;s in-box consultant to address past in-game management issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">From the Giants&#8217; perspective, losing Knox is another departure from a coaching tree that emphasized analytics and innovation since 2022. His expertise in bridging analytics with on-field calls should serve Saleh well in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Newly hired Giants head coach John Harbaugh is likely to lure many assistants from Baltimore, compiling his own familiar analytics team.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1769964494_214_86373428007-square-1.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 1, 2026, 10:01 a.m. ET The Tennessee Titans have hired Cade Knox as offensive assistant\/game management, bringing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[95878,7,6,96069,96070,95882,95891,95895,95906,96177,95884,95883,95889,526,394,2411,527,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-721798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sstssportsnflgiants","12":"tag-sstsngiants","13":"tag-tagamerican-football","14":"tag-tagnew-york-giants","15":"tag-tagnfl-hub","16":"tag-tagoverall-positive","17":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","18":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","19":"tag-tagsports-news","20":"tag-tagtennessee-titans","21":"tag-tennessee","22":"tag-tennessee-titans","23":"tag-tennesseetitans","24":"tag-titans","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115996400635668872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721798","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=721798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}