{"id":795546,"date":"2026-03-06T06:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/795546\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T06:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:55:11","slug":"the-49ers-are-hiring-former-bears-coach-matt-eberflus-as-a-defensive-assistant-ap-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/795546\/","title":{"rendered":"The 49ers are hiring former Bears coach Matt Eberflus as a defensive assistant, AP source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DPIP2TXB6REPLE4MVGBEZBY5J4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">SANTA CLARA, Calif. \u2014 The San Francisco 49ers are hiring former Chicago Bears head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cowboys-matt-eberflus-fired-ddc1eb75a1085de9356538c360a47ebb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Eberflus<\/a> as a defensive assistant on coach Kyle Shanahan\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ICQ4VXK4SJHEPGPSFTGS2QSWKQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A person familiar with the deal said Thursday that Eberflus will join the defensive staff <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/49ers-defensive-coordinator-raheem-morris-ad0e44667ae85bb584051aa03f66c0b1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">under coordinator Raheem Morris<\/a> . The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team hadn\u2019t announced the hiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA CLARA, Calif. \u2014 The San Francisco 49ers are hiring former Chicago Bears head coach Matt Eberflus as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2080],"tags":[104526,220,111729,7,16423,6,111730,498,40927,42950,835,110248,8865,1161,252,2624,2623,9,1438],"class_list":{"0":"post-795546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-2026-nfl-schedule","9":"tag-49ers","10":"tag-fbn-49ers-eberflus","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-labor","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nfl-2026-news","15":"tag-nfl-football","16":"tag-nfl-highlights","17":"tag-nfl-latest-news","18":"tag-nfl-news","19":"tag-nfl-schedule-2026","20":"tag-nfl-scores","21":"tag-san-francisco","22":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","23":"tag-sanfrancisco","24":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-sports-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116180924922931364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795546","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=795546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}