{"id":736035,"date":"2026-02-07T16:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/736035\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T16:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T16:43:12","slug":"eagles-assistant-departing-the-nfl-to-coach-at-a-big-ten-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/736035\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles assistant departing the NFL to coach at a Big Ten program"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re planning to travel from the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>‘ home base to Lincoln, Nebraska, it’s going to take you about 19 hours. That’s about 1,269 miles from the NovaCare Complex, but who’s counting? Something tells us the more time-effective plan is to board a plane. A full day on I-80 East and I-76 East is a beast. Why is that important? Per the report, an Eagles<\/a> assistant is joining Matt Rhule’s staff.<\/p>\n

According to CBS Sports’ Matt Zenitz, Eagles defensive assistant Tyler Yelk is joining the Big Ten as a safeties coach for the Nebraska Cornhuskers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yelk originally joined the Eagles in 2023, serving as an assistant to head coach Nick Sirianni. During the 2025 offseason, he was named a defensive assistant. Before landing in the City of Brotherly Love, Yelk was a college safeties coach at Idaho, and he spent some time at Temple and Northern Illinois. He coached safeties and nickelbacks for the Owls.<\/p>\n

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He also has some experience as a co-defensive coordinator, a job he held at Dallas Goedert’s alma mater, South Dakota. He now takes his talents to the Big Ten.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Eagles Wire: Tyler Yelk accepts job at Nebraska as safeties coach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’re planning to travel from the Philadelphia Eagles‘ home base to Lincoln, Nebraska, it’s going to take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[3395,25655,7,4427,3034,3957,106106,1003,4604,6,109,37557,425,106107],"class_list":{"0":"post-736035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-dallas-goedert","9":"tag-defensive-assistant","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-lincoln","12":"tag-matt-rhule","13":"tag-matt-zenitz","14":"tag-miles-taylor","15":"tag-nebraska","16":"tag-nebraska-cornhuskers","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","19":"tag-safeties-coach","20":"tag-the-eagles","21":"tag-tyler-yelk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736035","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=736035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}