{"id":746443,"date":"2026-02-12T06:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/746443\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T06:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:02:13","slug":"oklahoma-rb-coach-demarco-murray-heading-to-kansas-city-per-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/746443\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma RB coach DeMarco Murray heading to Kansas City per reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 11, 2026, 10:38 p.m. CT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">There hasn&#8217;t been a lot of turnover for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college-sports\/sec\/oklahoma\" data-autotag=\"a5355359-2a0e-4b89-bd78-9f03c554fe00\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Oklahoma Sooners<\/a> this offseason but they haven&#8217;t fully avoided the assistant coach carousel. <a href=\"http:\/\/soonerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/sooners\/football\/2026\/02\/02\/oklahoma-football-jay-valai-buffalo-bills-joe-brady-jim-leonhard-nfl\/88472536007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Valai left for the NFL and the Buffalo Bills<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/soonerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/sooners\/football\/2026\/01\/08\/oklahoma-football-jason-witten-dallas-cowboys-tight-end-reaction\/88093623007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma hired Jason Witten<\/a> to replace Joe Jone Finley. Now it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Schultz_Report\/status\/2021782743584289209?s=20\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">DeMarco Murray finding a new home with the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Murray, a former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/oklahoma-sooners\/3430\/\" data-autotag=\"c039cdab-ebaa-4930-af42-206cda779c20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Sooners<\/a> and Dallas Cowboys running back, spent the last six seasons coaching running backs at the University of Oklahoma. Despite early success with Rhamondre Stevenson, Kennedy Brooks, and Eric Gray, the Sooners struggled to find consistency amid injuries at the running back position from 2023 to 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Still, he recruited at a high level for the Sooners, bringing in high-level prospects Gavin Sawchuk, Jovantae Barnes, Tory Blaylock, Hollywood Smothers (before he left for North Carolina State, his first spring in Norman), Taylor Tatum, Xavier Robinson, and Jonathan Hatton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Murray led the NFL in rushing in 2014 with the Dallas Cowboys and had a stellar career that included stops with the Philadelphia Eagles and Tennessee Titans. Now, he joins Andy Reid&#8217;s staff in Kansas City, hoping to get the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" data-autotag=\"e91367c2-d7b8-4bec-9359-95947acd6b0e\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Chiefs<\/a> back to the playoffs in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/soonerswire.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/college\/sooners\/football\/2025\/11\/10\/oklahoma-sooners-football-xavier-robinson-sec-alabama-ole-miss\/87196309007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - Oklahoma Sooners Running Back Xavier Robinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/87196273007-usatsi-24659583.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SoonersWire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SoonersWire<\/a> on X, and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/SoonersWire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> to follow ongoing coverage of Oklahoma news, notes, and opinions. You can also follow John on X<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/john9williams\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@john9williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:7|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 11, 2026, 10:38 p.m. CT There hasn&#8217;t been a lot of turnover for the Oklahoma Sooners this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[95878,7,6,97698,96358,95882,96027,107228,95893,96540,95896,96213,97323,96339,96340,95899,97199,96100,96177,96071,95883,526,394,2411,527,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-746443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sstssportscollegesoonersfootball","12":"tag-sstsnfootball","13":"tag-tagamerican-football","14":"tag-tagcollege-sports","15":"tag-tageric-gray","16":"tag-tagfacebook","17":"tag-tagkansas-city-chiefs","18":"tag-tagnational-sports","19":"tag-tagnc-state-wolfpack-football","20":"tag-tagoklahoma","21":"tag-tagoklahoma-sooners","22":"tag-tagoklahoma-sooners-football","23":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","24":"tag-tagrhamondre-stevenson","25":"tag-tagsec-hub","26":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","27":"tag-tagsmg-timely","28":"tag-tagsports-news","29":"tag-tennessee","30":"tag-tennessee-titans","31":"tag-tennesseetitans","32":"tag-titans","33":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746443","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=746443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}