{"id":734583,"date":"2026-02-07T00:54:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/734583\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:54:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:54:01","slug":"ex-commanders-oc-kliff-kingsbury-expected-to-join-rams-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/734583\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Commanders OC Kliff Kingsbury expected to join Rams&#8217; coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rams led the league in offense this past season, generating a league-high 394.6 yards and 30.5 points per game. L.A. is poised to remain on top in 2026 after <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/matthew-stafford\/\" title=\"Matthew Stafford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Stafford<\/a> said Thursday during his acceptance speech upon winning the 2025 AP NFL Most Valuable Player award at NFL Honors that he will <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/matthew-stafford-rams-qb-most-valuable-player-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">return for an 18th season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Stafford, the Rams return a stellar wide receiving duo in <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/puka-nacua\/\" title=\"Puka Nacua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Puka Nacua<\/a> and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/davante-adams\/\" title=\"Davante Adams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davante Adams<\/a> while also boasting an effective running back duo in <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/kyren-williams\/\" title=\"Kyren Williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyren Williams<\/a> and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/blake-corum\/\" title=\"Blake Corum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Corum<\/a>, who are all under contract through 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Kingsbury&#8217;s offensive mind should only boost McVay&#8217;s staff, which was chock full of head coaching candidates in this year&#8217;s hiring cycle, including former OC Mike LaFleur, who was <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/cardinals-plan-to-hire-rams-offensive-coordinator-mike-lafleur-as-new-head-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hired<\/a> as head coach of the Cardinals last week.<\/p>\n<p>After emerging as the head coach of his alma mater at Texas Tech, Kingsbury made a splash in Arizona, assisting <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/kyler-murray\/\" title=\"Kyler Murray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyler Murray<\/a>&#8216;s rise in the NFL. He was also instrumental in <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/jayden-daniels\/\" title=\"Jayden Daniels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jayden Daniels<\/a>&#8216; incredible rookie season which ended with an Offensive Rookie of the Year award and an appearance in the NFC title game in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Kingsbury, who <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-coaching-gm-tracker-latest-news-interviews-developments-2026-hiring-cycle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed<\/a> for a number of OC and head coaching jobs the past few weeks, will bring his offensive mind to the Rams&#8217; sideline in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rams led the league in offense this past season, generating a league-high 394.6 yards and 30.5 points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,7,58,88,6,609],"class_list":{"0":"post-734583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-no-minute"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116026622338147871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734583","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=734583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}