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Jim Harbaugh taking Chargers’ head-coaching job, per source: Why he’s returning to NFL

Los Angeles Chargers owner Dean Spanos vowed in December he would be “reimagining” how his organization approaches “building and maintaining a championship-caliber program.” Consider that process reimagined.

The Chargers are hiring Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh as their coach, a league source told The Athletic on Wednesday.

For the first time since Norv Turner in 2007, the Chargers have hired a coach with previous NFL head-coaching experience. They went shopping at the top of the market, in one of the most decorated and qualified groups of coaching candidates in recent league history. And they succeeded.