by: Grant Grubbs • 07/21/25 • grant_grubbs_
Last week, a rumor that Nick Saban could return to coaching spread like wildfire after ESPN’s Greg McElroy reported that a “very much in the know person” told him it was possible. During an appearance on the Dan Patrick Show on Monday, NFL insider Albert Breer weighed in on the popular rumor.
“I would say that maybe there’s an itch that he wants to scratch, or he wants to at least explore scratching in the NFL,” Breer said . “ Urban Meyer was on the air somewhere. I think he was with Colin [Cowherd], or someone like that, and he said something along the lines of, ‘I don’t think he’ll do it in college because of all of the reasons that he left college football in the first place, but I could see him doing it in the NFL.’
“I think the possibility exists that maybe he looks at it and says, ‘If there is a situation where I can win quickly, where there’s a quarterback — I don’t feel completely satisfied with what happened in Miami 20 years ago.’ Every time he talks about the NFL, he’ll bring up the Miami doctors and their assessment of [Drew] Brees . I mean, the people were picking them to go to the Super Bowl in 2006, which was his last year in Miami.”
In Saban’s first year at the helm of the Miami Dolphins in 2006, he guided the team to a 9-7 record and narrowly missed the playoffs. The Dolphins were expected to be one of the best teams in the NFL in 2007, but they had a dilemma at quarterback.
The team considered picking up QB Drew Brees, who was dropped by the San Diego Chargers after suffering career-threatening shoulder injury. However, Miami doctors ultimately decided Brees wasn’t worth the risk and the Dolphins traded for QB Daunte Culpepper instead.