This week we may eventually get a football coach-centric national holiday. In case you hadn’t heard, the Seahawks dismissed Pete Carroll as head coach, Nick Saban retired and Bill Belichick parted ways with the Patriots, all in a span of less than 24 hours. Not only is this a memorable fork in the road in the history of the sport, it’s accelerated what was already a highly-competitive 2024 coaching cycle around the NFL.
After this morning’s breaking news that Jerod Mayo is succeeding Belichick in New England, there are now seven teams looking for a new head coach and a couple-dozen strong candidates to fill them, including a few future Hall of Famers. Where will they land? That’s anybody’s guess, but we can tell which teams offer a better chance to win. Here’s how we rank all seven head coach openings around the league.