Turning over a quarter of NFL head coaching jobs in a single offseason isn’t a new trend. The availability of so many high-end résumés is.
From Bill Belichick and Jim Harbaugh to Pete Carroll and Mike Vrabel, the league has arguably never seen such a depth of experience and talent — albeit with some age — in a single collection of head-coaching candidates. Add in a multitude of high-achieving coordinators who appear capable of taking the next step, and there may never be a better time to hire in the NFL.
With that in mind, we polled six highly positioned league sources — three on the coaching side and three on the personnel side — and asked them to rank the league’s seven jobs that were open as of Thursday, with heavy consideration on team ownership, roster and salary-cap load.