{"id":734069,"date":"2026-02-06T19:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/734069\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T19:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:16:18","slug":"eagles-defensive-assistant-reportedly-leaving-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/734069\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles defensive assistant reportedly leaving Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Philadelphia Eagles defensive assistant Tyler Yelk is leaving the Birds to become Nebraska\u2019s new safeties coach on Matt Rhule\u2019s staff, according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mzenitz\/status\/2019844253707289002\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Yelk previously overlapped with current Cornhuskers defensive coordinator Rob Aurich on the University of Idaho\u2019s staff in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That was the last year Yelk spent coaching college football before joining the Eagles. He held three different titles while in Philly:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">2023 \u2014 Eagles assistant to the head coach<br \/>2024 \u2014 Eagles head coach quality control<br \/>2025 \u2014 Eagles defensive assistant<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s not clear what Yelk specifically contributed to the Eagles \u2026 but he was ultimately part of their Super Bowl LIX success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s also not clear if Yelk\u2019s contract expired or if the Eagles allowed him to leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In any case, Yelk is gone, and the Eagles might have another coaching position to fill depending on how they want to go about replacing him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Eagles defensive assistant Tyler Yelk is leaving the Birds to become Nebraska\u2019s new safeties coach on Matt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,7,6,242,109,5406,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-734069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","13":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-news","14":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116025294169556513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734069","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=734069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}