Two Oregon Big Men Declare For Draft
The Oregon Ducks have come a long way from 2022 when defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux was their only selection in the NFL draft, seeing six players selected in 2023 and eight players selected last year. This year, though, the Ducks have a chance at doing something they haven’t done in 10 years: land two players in the first round of the draft. They last accomplished this feat in 2015, when Marcus Mariota and Arik Armstead were taken within the top 17 picks. 
The two players that could make it happen this year are defensive tackle Derrick Harmon and offensive tackle Josh Conerly Jr. Harmon announced on his Instagram that he would be forgoing his redshirt senior year to declare for the 2025 NFL Draft, while Conerly announced the forgoing of his senior season on X.
Harmon has come a long way since committing to Michigan State as a three-star defensive lineman out of Loyola HS (MI). His biggest offers came from the Spartans, Ole Miss, and Purdue, while he received a few others from Group of 5 and FCS programs, as well. In East Lansing, Harmon redshirted his freshman year after only appearing in four games. He began to make an impact as a redshirt freshman, making 30 total tackles, including three for loss and two sacks in 12 appearances with five starts. He doubled his start total as a redshirt sophomore, racking up 40 total tackles, four tackles for loss, and 1.5 sacks.
Following a solid 2023 campaign, Harmon entered the transfer portal after the Spartans fired then-head coach Mel Tucker. After taking visits to Oregon, Ohio State, and Auburn, he opted to withdraw his name from the portal and remain with new head coach Jonathan Smith. When he re-entered the transfer portal in April, he immediately became the most-coveted defensive lineman available and eventually committed to the Ducks.
In Eugene, Harmon made an immediate impact, taking his play to another level and performing as one of the top interior defenders in the country. In his single season as a Duck, he set new career highs in tackles (45), tackles for loss (11), sacks (5.0), passes defensed (4), and forced fumbles (2). The stats only tell half the story of how disruptive Harmon is as an interior defender. His quickness and power make him a menace inside the tackles, but he’s handled his own lining up over tackles plenty this season, giving him versatility to play all over the line.
Conerly was the gem of the Ducks 2022 signing class. Coming out of Rainier Beach HS (WA), Conerly was the team’s only five-star recruit and the top tackle in the country, per 247Sports. With offers from all over, Conerly took his time with the recruiting process, taking official visits with Michigan, Oklahoma, Miami, Oregon, and USC. Many believed he was destined to become a Trojan, but he shocked the recruiting world and committed to the Ducks.
Conerly didn’t start at all as a true freshman, but he was too talented to keep off the field. He played often on special teams and established himself as a reliable extra lineman in jumbo packages. It was as a sophomore that Conerly became a full-time starter at left tackle. He was considered the key factor of an offensive line that gave up the fewest sacks in the nations (5) and the third-fewest tackles for loss (44). In 2024, he was once again served as the prime example of dependability. He only allowed one sack and five pressures this season.
While Harmon is an almost guaranteed first-rounder, Conerly will be the deciding factor of whether or not the school can get two players selected on Day 1. The talk around Conerly reminds me of the talk around former Oklahoma offensive tackle Orlando Brown Jr. Brown was polarizing in that his technique and combine performance were considered downright poor, but he got the job done time and again. Conerly’s technique is raw when hand-fighting, and he could stand to get stronger, but elite recovery speed has saved him from otherwise damning attributes.
As mentioned before, Harmon should be securely in the first round. ESPN’s Mel Kiper lists him as the 18th-best overall prospect, and he and his colleagues (Matt Miller, Jordan Reid, and Field Yates) all have him as either the No. 2 or No. 3 defensive tackle prospect. The Athletic’s Dane Brugler has Harmon as the second-best interior defender and the 14th-best prospect. Conerly ranges from the third- to sixth-best offensive tackle prospect among the ESPN analysts, while Brugler has him as the fifth tackle and the 33rd-best overall prospect.
Harmon and Conerly will both be hoping to hear their names on the first night of the draft. Harmon can likely book his ticket to Lambeau for the event. Conerly may be just on the outside looking in for now, but a strong pre-draft performance, combined with a relatively weak class of offensive linemen, could result in a boost into the first round.
NFL Reserve/Futures Contracts: 1/15/25
Wednesday’s reserve/futures deals around the NFL:
Denver Broncos
Green Bay Packers
Indianapolis Colts
Minnesota Vikings
- DT Travis Bell, G Henry Byrd, CB Kahlef Hailassie, DE Jonathan Harris, WR Lucky Jackson, T Marcellus Johnson, OLB Gabriel Murphy, QB Brett Rypien, RB Zavier Scott, WR Thayer Thomas, LB Max Tooley, T Leroy Watson
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Cowboys Request Interview With Leslie Frazier
Veteran coach Leslie Frazier‘s road back to a head coaching position continues this offseason. The former Vikings head coach has been requested to interview for the open head coach job in Dallas today, according to Todd Archer of ESPN. 
A disciple of the Andy Reid-coaching tree, Frazier got his NFL start as a defensive backs coach for the Eagles in 1999. It didn’t take long for Frazier to get his first defensive coordinator gig in 2003 for the Bengals. Despite making major improvements to the unit over two seasons, Frazier was dismissed. After two years as an assistant to Tony Dungy in Indianapolis, Frazier was hired as defensive coordinator in Minnesota in 2007. He added the assistant head coach title in 2008 and eventually had to step up as interim head coach when the team fired Brad Childress.
Frazier became one of the few examples of interim head coaches getting the permanent job the following year. Though he struggled through his first season with the team, going 3-13, his second season saw a 10-6 record take the Vikings to the playoffs, the biggest single-season turnaround in franchise history. The success wouldn’t last long, though. A 5-10-1 season in 2013 led to Frazier’s dismissal.
Frazier spent the next two years as defensive coordinator for Tampa Bay, thought the team did not pick up his option for another year. He worked for a year as the Ravens defensive backs coach before getting hired as the Bills defensive coordinator in 2017. Frazier found a home in Buffalo, staying in one place for over five years for only the second time in his coaching career.
Eventually, though, in 2023, Frazier made the choice to step away from the team in order to pursue another head coaching gig. After sitting out the 2023 NFL season, Frazier participated in head coaching interviews for the Raiders and Chargers and a defensive coordinator interview for the Dolphins. After failing to land another position, Frazier took a position on rookie head coach Mike Macdonald‘s staff in Seattle as assistant head coach.
His pursuit for a second chance as a head coach will continue with this interview to replace Mike McCarthy in Dallas. He becomes just the fourth candidate mentioned for his position. Here’s the full list of candidates mentioned for the Cowboys:
- Bill Belichick, head coach (North Carolina): Mutual interest would have existed
- Leslie Frazier, assistant head coach (Seahawks): Interview requested
- Robert Saleh, former head coach (Jets): Interview expected
- Deion Sanders, head coach (Colorado): Discussions commenced; no deal expected
Raiders Request Interviews With Giants’, Chargers’ Assistant GMs
The list of candidates for the Raiders‘ open general manager position continues to grow. After three interviews were requested or announced yesterday, the team requested two more interviews today. Earlier, Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports reported that the Raiders were the latest team to request an interview with Giants assistant GM Brandon Brown, and NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport tagged on a request to interview Chargers assistant GM Chad Alexander, as well.
While he has yet to earn his first general manager position just yet, Brown is once again getting interest in a top job. Brown is one of the younger names you’ll see getting interviews in this cycle. He only broke into the NFL as a pro personnel intern for the Jets in 2012. In 2017, Brown got his big break, getting hired as assistant director of pro scouting in Philadelphia. After two years in the position, Brown was promoted to director of pro scouting and, two years later, was promoted as second time to director of player personnel. After only a year in that role, the Giants hired Brown away to become their assistant general manager in 2022.
Before he was hired by New York, he was interviewed in 2022 for the Vikings GM position that went to Kwesi Adofo-Mensah. His meteoric rise stalled a bit in 2023, as he continued his job without further interviews, but last year, both the Panthers and Chargers booked him as a candidate for their open GM jobs, which eventually went to Dan Morgan and Joe Hortiz, respectively. Both teams even moved him on to the second round of interviews before making their decisions.
Alexander has been around a bit longer than Brown. He spent 20 seasons in Baltimore in a variety of roles, mostly in the personnel department under Ozzie Newsome. He followed Joe Douglas to the Jets, when Douglas was hired as GM, to serve as director of player personnel, a role Alexander held for five years in New York. When his other former coworker in Baltimore, Hortiz, was hired as GM in Los Angeles last year, he followed to take on his current role.
While Alexander has extensive experience in NFL front offices, having just completed his 26th season in the NFL, this is his first interview for a general manager position. If the Raiders are able to complete interviews with two of Brown, Alexander, and Steelers director of pro scouting Sheldon White, they will have satisfied the interview requirements of the Rooney Rule.
For now, both Brown and Alexander join a currently short list of Raiders’ candidates, though more candidates are expected to be announced. Here’s the full list of the team’s planned and requested interviews:
- Chad Alexander, assistant general manager (Chargers): Interview requested
- Brandon Brown, assistant general manager (Giants): Interview requested
- Lance Newmark, assistant general manager (Commanders): Potential frontrunner?
- John Spytek, assistant general manager (Buccaneers): To interview
- Jon-Eric Sullivan, director of player personnel (Packers): Interview requested
- Sheldon White, director of pro scouting (Steelers): Interview requested
Georgia Defensive Stars Declare For Draft
Stop me if you’ve heard this story before, but the University of Georgia is set to produce multiple first-round picks in the 2025 NFL Draft, specifically on the defensive side of the ball. Bulldogs linebacker Jalon Walker, safety Malaki Starks, and pass rusher Mykel Williams all took to social media last week to announce their declarations to enter the draft. All three players were five-star recruits in an incredible 2022 signing class for the Dawgs, with Williams ranking as the 10th highest rated signee in school history at the time. 
Walker, out of Salisbury HS (NC), was 247Sports’ third-best linebacker and 26th-best overall recruit in the class. As a true freshman, Walker played sparingly on special teams and as a reserve insider linebacker. While getting slightly more time as a reserve insider linebacker in his sophomore campaign, Walker still found a way to lead the team with five sacks. Finally earning a full-time starting role as a junior, Walker set a career high in tackles (60) while leading the team with more career highs in tackles for loss (11) and sacks (6.5). Walker was awarded the Butkus Award for the nation’s best linebacker this year.
Now, Walker is almost certainly going to be a first-round draft pick, the only question remaining is: at what position? ESPN’s Mel Kiper and Field Yates and The Athletic’s Dane Brugler all view Walker as the top off-ball linebacker in the draft, with Kiper and Brugler rating him as the ninth- and seventh-best prospect, respectively, overall, touting his sideline-to-sideline capabilities with his elite pass rushing abilities adding versatility to his portfolio. ESPN’s Matt Miller and Jordan Reid, though, have Walker ranking third amongst edge rushers alongside Williams, predicting that Walker’s elite pass rushing ability will land him as an outside linebacker or defensive end in the NFL.
Williams, out of Hardaway HS (GA), was even higher ranked than Walker coming out of high school, with 247Sports listing him as the second-best defensive lineman and the seventh-best overall recruit in the nation. After an initial commitment to USC, Williams made a flip late in his senior year, deciding to go to Athens, instead.
As a true freshman, Williams led the team in sacks (4.5) despite only making two starts in 15 appearances of the team’s championship campaign. While Walker led the team in that stat each of the past two years, Williams was second on the team in both 2023 (4.5) and 2024 (5.0). Williams started 10 of 13 games as a sophomore, but after failing to take much of a step forward, Williams would only earn five starts this season, getting out-snapped by players like Chaz Chambliss, Damon Wilson Jr., and Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins.
We’ve seen plenty examples before to show that physical tools and potential can easily outweigh a lack of production in college, and that seems to be the case with Williams. Despite his inability to show more consistency and production at Georgia, Williams’ speed, power, and bend are viewed as top-tier traits that could make him a scary weapon on an NFL defense. Kiper and his colleagues and Brugler consistently have Williams ranked as the second- or third-best pass rusher in the draft behind only Penn State’s Abdul Carter and sometimes behind Tennessee’s James Pearce Jr. Kiper lists Williams as the 16th-best overall prospect, while Brugler slots him up at eighth. 
Perhaps saving the best for last, Starks was the jewel of Georgia’s recruiting class that year out of Jefferson HS (GA), ranking as the top athlete and the fourth-best overall prospect, according to 247Sports. Starks made the biggest impact of the three as a freshman, starting 14 of 15 contests. In the championship-winning campaign, Starks tied for the team-lead in passes defensed (7) while finishing second on the team with two interceptions. He finished second in both categories as a sophomore, as well, with three interceptions and seven more passes defensed. While his ball-hawking took a backseat this past season, Starks took the team-lead in another category with 77 total tackles.
While Kiper lists Starks below Walker as the 13th best overall prospect in the draft, he and his colleagues all list Starks as the top safety prospect in the class. Brugler has Starks ranked as the fourth-best overall prospect. Starks projects so highly because of his high football intelligence and his versatile ability to make plays all over the field. He has a build closer to that of a Brian Branch than a Kyle Hamilton, but he possesses the ability both pros have to make tackles in the box, close quickly in coverage, and finish plays with good hands. It may take him a moment to live up to that comparison, but the potential is absolutely there.
While there has been a large number of perceived “busts” out of Georgia in the last few years, Starks, Walker, and Williams won’t be coasting off of the boosts often applied to winners of a national championship like Travon Walker, Quay Walker, Devonte Wyatt, and Lewis Cine, who perhaps have not lived up to their relative draft stock. Regardless, Georgia is on a three-year streak of producing multiple first-round picks, and that trend will likely continue as Starks, Walker, and Williams prepare for April.
NFL Staff Rumors: Raiders, Jets, 49ers
Based on several reports in recent days, we’ve been pushing the assumption that part-owner Tom Brady has immense influence in the Raiders‘ operations, namely the ongoing searches for a new head coach and general manager. This sentiment was all but confirmed in an article today by Vincent Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. One of Bonsignore’s sources with knowledge of the situation told him that “this is Tom’s show now” and that majority owner Mark Davis wants Brady to have a “huge” voice in the team’s operations.
Brady’s influence does appear to have its limits, though. According to Vic Tafur and Tashan Reed of The Athletic, many in the NFL pinned new Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel as Brady’s top option to coach in Las Vegas. Vrabel wasn’t one of the team’s scheduled interviews, though, as those became known to the media. Apparently, Davis was “not interested in another go-round with ‘Patriots Way’ after the failure of Josh McDaniels and Dave Ziegler two years ago.”
Brady’s voice will otherwise still be heavily considered in the search for a new head coach and general manager. Buccaneers assistant general manager John Spytek has already been identified as a potential candidate, aided by Brady’s connection to his former team. While Tafur and Reed don’t mention any actual rumored interest, they list Commanders assistant general manager Lance Newmark, Lions assistant general manager Ray Agnew, Lions director of scouting Dwayne Joseph, Chiefs assistant general manager Mike Borgonzi, and Seahawks assistant general manager Nolan Teasley as names to watch for based on their potential compatibility with different head coaching candidates.
Here are a few other staff rumors from around the NFL:
- The Jets were another contender for Vrabel’s services, and they reportedly were extremely interested in bringing him in. In a Q&A with Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated, Breer stated his belief that New York would’ve allowed Vrabel to choose his own general manager had he signed with them, especially considering their main plan is to find the best guy (head coach or general manager) and build around them to achieve alignment throughout the coaching and front office staffs. Ultimately, Breer believes the reputation of team owner Woody Johnson likely dissuaded Vrabel away from the Jets.
- Staying in New York and with Breer’s peer at Sports Illustrated, Patrick McAvoy, we got a report that SportsNet New York insider Connor Hughes is under the opinion that Rex Ryan “is completely out” of the head coaching race for the Jets. Hughes was quoted on WFAN telling Rami Lavi that “that is not gonna happen with the Jets.”
- Following the departure of special teams coordinator Brian Schneider, the 49ers have begun the process of replacing him. To wit, Eric Branch of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the team has completed an interview with Lions assistant special teams coach Jett Modkins. Modkins has spent the last four seasons in Detroit under coordinator Dave Fipp, who is widely considered one of the best in the game.
2025 Draft QB Rumors: Ewers, Allar, Titans
The collegiate career of Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers appears to be over. While he has not officially released a statement, in a College GameDay interview with ESPN’s Pete Thamel, Ewers gave a blunt reply when asked if he expected to play college football next year, simply saying, “No, I don’t.”
Ewers started drawing attention in his second year as the starter for the Longhorns, completing 69 percent of his passes for 3,479 yards, 22 touchdowns, and six interceptions and rushing for five more scores. This year, the emergence of sophomore quarterback Arch Manning made it difficult for Ewers to stay on the field.
Manning’s presence combined with some in-season struggles resulted in a bit of a down year for Ewers. Despite the Longhorns reaching the College Football Playoff semifinals, Ewers (3,472 yards, 31 touchdowns, 12 interceptions) was never viewed as a strength on a team that many saw as balanced throughout the roster. At this point, it seems impossible to hold off the advancement of Manning. With the writing on the wall, Ewers doesn’t appear likely to remain in Austin or in college at all.
Following the assumption that Ewers will declare for the draft, it’s hard to determine in which round he’ll fall. The consensus seems to indicate that Miami’s Cam Ward and Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders are the only two passers that are worthy of first-round picks. The importance of the position may push a few fringe players up, though. In rankings from ESPN analysts and The Athletic’s Dane Brugler, Ewers is viewed as a fringe top-five quarterback, making it hard to believe that there will be enough need to push him into the first round, though he could hear his name in the middle rounds.
Here are a few more rumors concerning quarterbacks potentially in the 2025 NFL Draft class:
- Penn State’s Drew Allar has been an intriguing quarterback prospect in scouting circles. After being knocked out of the College Football Playoffs in the semifinals, reports seem to indicate that Allar will return to Happy Valley. Per Brugler, though, there were several in the NFL who believed Allar may enter the draft with a strong playoff run. While the Nittany Lions won two games, Allar only completed 54 percent of his passes for 433 yards, three touchdowns, and an interception in three games. There are certainly fans of Allar in the NFL, but it seems they’ll need to consider him for the 2026 NFL Draft as Allar has announced he’s returning for another year at Penn State, per Dane Brugler of The Athletic.
- Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated recently gave us a bit of obvious insight in the Titans‘ upcoming decision with the No. 1 overall draft pick. There’s a clear sense that they can’t move forward with only Will Levis as the gameplan at quarterback. This means that Tennessee will be taking a long, hard look at Ward and Sanders. If they don’t like what they see, Colorado athlete Travis Hunter could fill holes on both sides of the ball, or the team may just trade back and make a pick that they believe matches the value of their draft slot.
Texas T Kelvin Banks Jr. Declares For Draft
The 2025 NFL Draft is a strange one in that, unlike most drafts, this one lacks a collection of top-tier offensive linemen. That makes the evaluation of the top tackle prospects this year that much more important. One such prospect, Texas offensive tackle Kelvin Banks Jr., announced his intent to forgo his senior year of college to enter the draft on his Instagram. 
As a consensus five-star prospect and the third-ranked tackle recruit in the nation, Banks had all the big offers coming out of Summer Creek HS on the north side of Houston. While he did entertain a visit with Mario Cristobal and company in Oregon, the rest of his five official visits were fairly local, starting with LSU and Oklahoma State before considering the two in-state big dogs, Texas and Texas A&M. Though he took all his visits in the summer, he spent his senior season uncommitted before choosing the Longhorns on the early National Signing Day.
Texas didn’t wait to employ Banks’ services, starting one of the gems of their 2022 class at left tackle for all 13 games of his true freshman season. Banks immediately impressed, garnering second-team All-Big 12 honors while contributing to a line that helped Bijan Robinson secure first-round status. As a sophomore, Banks drew even more attention in national award voting and, for the second straight season, ensured that the top running back taken in the draft would come out of Austin.
Banks’ junior year was a bit of a mixed bag. His first two seasons in the college football warranted speculation that he may end up being the top offensive lineman in the draft, and he did enough to win both the Lombardi Award (best lineman of the year) and the Outland Trophy (best interior lineman in college football). His first season of SEC play, though, was mostly considered underwhelming by scouts, relative to the lofty expectations he had set. Still, with a lack of other top options, Banks is projected as a first-rounder and, likely, a top-10 pick.
The first concern for Banks is size. Listed by the Longhorns as 6-foot-4, 320, plenty of NFL teams will view Banks as a guard at the next level — an argument he can counter by pointing to his three sacks allowed over three seasons of only playing left tackle. His pass protection has been his strength, and it tends to be more consistent than his abilities as a run blocker. That being said, when going up against crafty pass rushers with a wide tool set, he can be caught easily out of position or on the ground.
Regardless, the tools to be a top lineman in the NFL are present. ESPN’s Mel Kiper ranks Banks as the top offensive lineman in the class and the 10th-best overall prospect in the draft. Kiper’s colleagues at ESPN (Matt Miller, Jordan Reid, and Field Yates) all agree with Banks ranking as the top tackle. In his midseason draft rankings, Dane Brugler of The Athletic had dropped Banks a bit, ranking him as the second-best tackle behind LSU’s Will Campbell and the 18th-best overall prospect in the class.
In addition to Banks’ announcement, Texas saw junior running back Jaydon Blue announce his intentions to forgo his senior year of college, as well (per his X account). While Blue broke out in his junior year with career-highs in rushing yards (730), rushing touchdowns (8), and all receiving stats (42 receptions, 368 yards, 6 touchdowns), he played second fiddle to sophomore running back Quintrevion Wisner. With Wisner’s role only set to increase next year, Blue is likely making a business decision here, choosing the draft after a solid year over the transfer portal.
Though he does possess some flash and playmaking ability, Blue is not present on any pre-draft rankings. The 2025 draft is set to be extremely deep with quality running backs, so expect Blue to end up as a mid- to late-round flier, if selected.
NFL Practice Squad Updates: 1/12/25
A rare Sunday practice squad transaction as we head towards a playoff game tomorrow:
Minnesota Vikings
- Released: DT Travis Bell
Mike Vrabel Expected To Become Patriots’ Next HC
11:33pm: As if the below reporting wasn’t enough indication of where this coaching search was headed, Jordan Schultz of FOX Sports confirmed that the Patriots are indeed negotiating a deal with Vrabel to become their next head coach. Schultz claims that, “barring something unforeseen, the expectation remains that both sides will reach an agreement.”
4:21pm: The Patriots seem to be well on their way to replacing one former player-head coach with another. After firing former linebacker Jerod Mayo after only one season as head coach, it appears that New England is narrowing in on another former linebacker to replace him. While it has already been established that former Titans head coach Mike Vrabel is the “heavy favorite,” NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reports that contract talks are already underway. 
In the segment, Pelissero’s colleague, Ian Rapoport, doubled down on Vrabel as the overwhelming favorite to land the job. Though he did mention that Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson is under heavy consideration, as well, Rapoport reports that nobody he has connected with on the subject believes anyone other than Vrabel will be hired for the job. The new information in the segment is the bit from Pelissero that the Patriots have already started contract talks with Vrabel’s agent, indicating that a decision is well underway.
This is supported by a recent report from Dianna Russini of The Athletic, who says that, while Johnson interviewed well with New England, he plans to continue meeting with other teams. She adds that the Patriots are reportedly “pushing for a quick resolution to their HC search,” with many around the league expecting a decision this weekend. With that soon of a decision expected, it’s hard to believe New England plans on hiring anyone but the person with whom they’re already discussing a contract.
Seeing the writing on the wall, Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn even declined to interview for the job in New England. Glenn’s refusal to kowtow to the Patriots’ nominal attempt to fulfill the Rooney Rule with a decision already made highlights a continuing issue with New England’s hiring process. Last year, the team circumvented the rule by having a written succession plan for Mayo to take over for Bill Belichick. This year, the team seems to be scheduling interviews just to meet the requirements — at least two interviews with a minority or female candidate — despite having allegedly already made their decision. The team has currently fulfilled that requirement with interviews of former Texans offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton and former Buccaneers offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich.
Vrabel’s first stint as a head coach was widely viewed as a successful one. As a first-time head coach, Vrabel racked up a 54-45 regular season record and three consecutive postseason berths. His first trip to the playoffs resulted in a trip to the AFC Championship Game, while his next two visits were one-and-dones. He was fired by Tennessee after two consecutive losing seasons in 2022 and 2023 and served as a coaching and personnel consultant in Cleveland this year after failing to land the Chargers’ head coaching gig.
As the decision to bring on Vrabel seems to be drawing nearer and nearer, so, too, is the assumption that he will reunite Josh McDaniels with his former team. Josh Jones of CBS Sports reiterated today the prediction that McDaniels will serve as Vrabel’s offensive coordinator.