The NFL’s Rising Defensive Geniuses: Who Will Redefine the 2025 Season?

The NFL's Rising Defensive Geniuses: Who Will Redefine the 2025 Season?

So, too, strives this group of five new defensive play-callers – also in coordinator roles – heading into the 2025 season: Robert Saleh (San Francisco 49ers); Dennis Allen (Chicago Bears); Brandon Staley (New Orleans Saints); Steve Wilks (New York Jets); and Matt Eberflus (Dallas Cowboys).

Some of them had a little bit of success as head coaches, but all of them were eventually fired, and they’re now back with a previous franchise or an entirely new one.

(Graphic by Graham Bell)

Saleh and Allen didn’t see too much deviation in defensive success rate from when they were a head coach versus a defensive coordinator.

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