The 49ers need a new defensive coordinator with Robert Saleh moving on to become the Titans\u2019 head coach and they may not be bringing someone in from outside the organization. <\/p>\n
Assistant head coach Gus Bradley was the Colts\u2019 defensive coordinator before joining Kyle Shanahan\u2019s staff in 2025 and he\u2019s held the same role for several other clubs as well. That\u2019s led to speculation that he will take over Saleh\u2019s spot and Shanahan was asked about that prospect during a Wednesday press conference. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to say it\u2019s a real wide net but Gus is the obvious one to everyone and is to us too,\u201d Shanahan said. \u201cGus would be the main internal candidate. We feel fortunate to get Gus and great about that. We are going to go through the whole process. There\u2019s requirements we have to do and stuff that we want to do, also. So, hopefully, we can get it settled sooner than later.\u201d<\/p>\n
The obvious choice often winds up being the final one, so it won\u2019t come as a shock if the 49ers\u2019 search ends with Bradley running the defense. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 49ers need a new defensive coordinator with Robert Saleh moving on to become the Titans\u2019 head coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-423003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}