Former Arizona Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury will not apparently take a year off of football in 2023. After getting fired by Arizona following the 4-13 2022 season, Kingsbury now reportedly will rejoin the college ranks.
According to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, Kingsbury is expected to join USC head coach Lincoln Riley’s staff and work with quarterbacks.
It is a return to USC for Kingsbury.
After he was fired as head coach of Texas Tech after the 2018 season, he was hired as USC’s offensive coordinator, but then he was hired by the Cardinals a couple of weeks after that to be their head coach.
Kingsbury will get to work with Caleb Williams, who is a Heisman hopeful in 2023 and projected to be as high as the No. 1 pick in the 2024 draft.
Kingsbury is technically under contract still for five more years with the Cardinals. This job likely means the Cardinals will have to pay him only the difference between his original salary and what he will make at USC.
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