Marquand Manuel is the latest addition<\/a>, as safeties coach.<\/p>\nThere are two prominent positions still to be filled on Saleh\u2019s defensive staff. No announcements have been made at linebackers coach or nickel coach. Paul Kuharsky was first to report Saleh will be hiring a position coach for the nickel cornerback spot.<\/p>\n
The indication is that Frank Bush wasn\u2019t retained as linebackers coach. That\u2019s somewhat unfortunate, because Bush did a great job with Cedric Gray and James Williams last season. One potential candidate is former NFL player K.J. Wright, who played for Saleh in Seattle, where they won Super Bowl XLVIII together. Wright, a Memphis, Tennessee native, joined the 49ers\u2019 coaching staff in 2024 as a defensive quality control coach, meaning he coached under Saleh in 2025.<\/p>\n
Saleh also interviewed Falcons coach Mike Rutenberg for the defensive coordinator role that has since gone to Bradley. Rutenberg was Saleh\u2019s linebackers coach throughout his coaching tenure with the New York Jets. Would the Falcons allow him to make a lateral move? Probably not, but perhaps that explains the delay.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a bit more difficult to predict who the nickel coach might be. Cameron Brown and Jake Lynch were defensive quality control coaches for Saleh\u2019s 49ers last season. Former NFL cornerback Ricky Manning was an assistant for Saleh\u2019s Jets and last coached Raiders cornerbacks in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The offensive coaching staff has also been filled out with a combination of retention, Daboll connections, and Mike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[7,6,526,394,88576,87013,2413,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-729636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-tennessee","11":"tag-tennessee-titans","12":"tag-tennessee-titans-analysis","13":"tag-tennessee-titans-coaching-staff","14":"tag-tennessee-titans-news","15":"tag-tennesseetitans","16":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116014358521438780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729636","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=729636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}