{"id":431963,"date":"2026-01-27T03:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/431963\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T03:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:08:07","slug":"chargers-interview-steve-clinkscale-for-defensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/431963\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers Interview Steve Clinkscale for Defensive Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chargers on Monday confirmed they have interviewed Steve Clinkscale for their defensive coordinator position.<\/p>\n<p>Clinkscale has two seasons of NFL coaching experience and was most recently the Chargers defensive backs coach in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Bookmark the <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/news\/defensive-coordinator-search-candidates-confirmed-interviews-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chargers Defensive Coordinator Candidate Tracker<\/a> for the latest news.<\/p>\n<p>2024\u201325 Los Angeles Chargers defensive backs coach<\/p>\n<p>2022\u20132023 Michigan Co-Defensive Coordinator and defensive backs coach<\/p>\n<p>2021 Michigan defensive backs coach<\/p>\n<p>2016\u201320 Kentucky secondary coach<\/p>\n<p>2015 Cincinnati Defensive Coordinator and defensive backs coach<\/p>\n<p>2013\u201314 Cincinnati defensive backs coach<\/p>\n<p>2012 Illinois cornerbacks coach<\/p>\n<p>2009-11 Toledo Special Teams Coordinator and cornerbacks coach<\/p>\n<p>2008 Western Carolina defensive backs coach<\/p>\n<p>2007 Ashland linebackers coach<\/p>\n<p>2001\u201306 Ashland defensive backs coach<\/p>\n<p>1996-99 Ashland University defensive back<\/p>\n<p>Clinkscale played college football and graduated from Ashland University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chargers on Monday confirmed they have interviewed Steve Clinkscale for their defensive coordinator position. Clinkscale has two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[11978,399,11977,11979,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-431963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-app-homepage","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-homepage-cp","11":"tag-homepage-headlines","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaafootball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431963","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=431963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}