Ever since the Detroit Lions let Jim Caldwell go following the 2017 season, he’s been a hot name to become a head coach again at the NFL level. This year, his name is hotter than ever, and it appears he’s now a candidate to join the NFC North again. Per Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, Caldwell is expected to interview for the open Chicago Bears head coaching job.
If Caldwell scores the job, it would be a rare moment for a former Lions head coach. In the Super Bowl era, only one former Lions head coach has ever found another head coaching job in the NFL—and that comes with an asterisk because that man, Dick Jauron, was only an interim head coach in Detroit.