The San Francisco 49ers are expected to hire Robert Saleh as their new defensive coordinator. Said The Athletic.
Saleh, who played the same role among the 49 people between 2017 and 2020, has been without work since he was fired by the New York Jets in October.
He has applied for various head coach functions in recent weeks and it was thought that he was a leading candidate at the Jacksonville Jaguars.
However, that race took a wild turn on Thursday when the attacking coordinator of Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Liam Coen, participated in the race and made a shocking movement by Florida, despite the match of a new contract in Tampa.
Saleh would fly to Jacksonville on Thursday for a new interview with the Jaguars, but canceled his flight when the Coen news came out.
Now he is ready to return to San Francisco with Kyle Shanahan and to take the lead on the defense system that he created in 2017.
The San Francisco 49ers are expected to hire Robert Saleh as their new defensive coordinator

Between 2017 and 2020, Saleh created one of the most meant defenses of the NFL in the 49ers
The 49ers in Nick Sorensen in the role earlier this month after just one season and were looking for their fourth defensive coordinator in the past four seasons.
After his second season, Demeco Ryans departed in the role in 2022 to become head coach at the Houston Texans and Steve Wilks was fired after the 2023 season when San Francisco went to the Super Bowl.
The 49ers went backwards this season, because the unit -filled unit had difficulty creating turnover, stopping the series and creating consistent pressure on the Quarterback.
San Francisco has used a similar system in recent years as the system that started during the office of Saleh, but Shanahan said he wants a coordinator who can better adapt to the staff and be open to a change in schedule.
Saleh helped in building a defense that was one of the most dominant units of the competition in recent years. He was Shanahan’s first defensive coordinator in 2017 and had a hard time the first two seasons.
But after the team had drawn up the defensive end of Nick Bosa in 2019 and had implemented the ‘Wide Nine’ schedule, with Edge Rushers stood in line and concentrated on rising in the field, the defense started.
San Francisco went to the Super Bowl in the 2019 season and still had a strong season the following season when Bosa missed almost the entire year with a knee injury, which led to Saleh getting the job as head coach at the New York Jets.
Saleh was fired halfway through the past season, but the jets had a strong defense under his term of office.
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