{"id":723080,"date":"2026-02-02T05:17:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/723080\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:17:24","slug":"texans-expected-to-hire-giants-assistant-o-line-coach-james-ferentz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/723080\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans expected to hire Giants assistant O-Line coach James Ferentz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 1, 2026, 1:15 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Former <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> assistant offensive line coach James Ferentz is reportedly joining DeMeco Ryans&#8217; staff with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/houston-texans\/325\" data-autotag=\"4fdb1a06-1d90-42ff-b7f7-5268ecaf7955\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Houston Texans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Ferentz, 36, spent the last two years assisting Carmen Bricillo with the Giants under, first, Brian Daboll and then Mike Kafka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The current Texans&#8217; offensive line coach is Cole Popovich, and his assistant is Zach Yenser, so it&#8217;s unclear what Ferentz&#8217;s role will be. The offensive coordinator is Nick Caley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Ferentz was a two-time Super Bowl champion as a player with the New England Patriots. Coaching is in his blood. His father, Kirk Ferentz, has been the head football coach at Iowa since 1999.<\/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\/1770009444_229_86373428007-square-1.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:6|\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 1, 2026, 1:15 p.m. ET Former New York Giants assistant offensive line coach James Ferentz is reportedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[95878,7,221,253,2368,6,96069,96070,95882,95953,104375,95891,95895,95897,96177,95884,95883,222,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-723080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-texans","12":"tag-houstontexans","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sstssportsnflgiants","15":"tag-sstsngiants","16":"tag-tagamerican-football","17":"tag-taghouston-texans","18":"tag-tagjames-ferentz","19":"tag-tagnew-york-giants","20":"tag-tagnfl-hub","21":"tag-tagoverall-negative","22":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","23":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-texans","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115999345439589371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723080","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=723080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}