If the average career length for players is only three years, the average for head coaches can’t be much better. Long tenures for guys like Chiefs HC Andy Reid and Steelers HC Mike Tomlin obscure that for most head coaches, job security is a year-to-year proposition. In the last 15 years, NFL teams introduced 107 new coaching hires — a clip of seven per year. That means every three years, the league has essentially 66 percent turnover in the head coaching ranks.

Another batch of coaches is entering their final season on the job this year, but the good news is that it could be a relatively slower year for coaching changes. Firings tend to ebb and flow over three-year cycles, and with 15 new hires over the past two years, 2026 is shaping up to be an ebb. Looking around the league, there are

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