{"id":36890,"date":"2025-01-24T23:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T03:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/?p=36890"},"modified":"2025-01-24T23:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T03:53:26","slug":"breaking-news-49ers-hiring-robert-saleh-as-new-defensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/breaking-news-49ers-hiring-robert-saleh-as-new-defensive-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: 49ers hiring Robert Saleh as new Defensive Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 49ers are bringing back former defensive coordinator Robert Saleh, also the former New York Jets head coach, to return the defensive coordinator position on Kyle Shanahan&#8217;s coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>Saleh was the teams defensive coordinator from 2017-2020, and was a big part of the teams&#8217; Super Bowl run back in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Robert, &amp; the 49ers for getting Saleh, who wasn&#8217;t, in my eyes, given a chance to succeed in New York, back with the franchise.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reunion: After interviewing for three head coaching jobs, Robert Saleh is now officially returning to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/49ers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#49ers<\/a> as defensive coordinator, per sources.<\/p>\n<p>Saleh impressed in interviews and now is back in a familiar place, with a chance to become a hot HC candidate again in 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jju2cu1qjj\">pic.twitter.com\/Jju2cu1qjj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/1882983285154025978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With that said, I thank you for reading, and follow me on X\/Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.x.com\/49erscap\"><strong>@49erscap<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong>&amp; on Blue Sky App <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/49erscap.bsky.social\"><strong>@49erscap.bsky.social<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 49ers are bringing back former defensive coordinator Robert Saleh, also the former New York&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,4,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-news","category-exclusive","category-team-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":39,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36892,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36890\/revisions\/36892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/49erscap.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}