Tennessee Titans finalizing deal to hire 49ers DC Robert Saleh, per report

by: Nick Geddes 22 hours ago NickGeddesNews

The Tennessee Titans are finalizing a deal to hire Robert Saleh as their next head coach, per Adam Schefter of ESPN. Saleh spent Monday in Nashville interviewing with the Titans for a second time. He will take over as the 22nd head coach in franchise history.

Saleh, 46, spent the 2025 season with the San Francisco 49ers, serving as the team’s defensive coordinator. The 49ers dealt with injuries to several key players, most notably, defensive end Nick Bosa and linebacker Fred Warner suffered season-ending injuries. Still, San Francisco held strong defensively and found a way to win 12 games in the regular season. The 49ers’ season came to an end this past Saturday, a 41-6 defeat to the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Divisional Round.

This was Saleh’s second stint as San Francisco’s play-caller. He held the position from 2017-2020 before taking the head coaching job with the New York Jets. Saleh went 20-37 in New York, fired just five games into the 2024 season, his fourth with the franchise. He spent the remainder of the season working as an offensive consultant for the Green Bay Packers before returning to San Francisco ahead of the 2025 campaign.

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