{"id":470811,"date":"2026-02-15T22:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/470811\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:02:07","slug":"john-harbaugh-spoke-to-rex-ryan-at-length-about-giants-dc-job-before-hiring-dennard-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/470811\/","title":{"rendered":"John Harbaugh spoke to Rex Ryan “at length” about Giants DC job before hiring Dennard Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Giants hired Dennard Wilson as their defensive coordinator, but he wasn\u2019t the only one of John Harbaugh\u2019s former Ravens assistants in the mix for the job. <\/p>\n

Rex Ryan served as Baltimore\u2019s defensive coordinator during Harbaugh\u2019s first season as the team\u2019s head coach in 2008. Ryan jumped from that job to the Jets\u2019 head coaching position and Harbaugh told Ian O\u2019Connor of TheAthletic.com that he spoke to Ryan about leaving ESPN to join MetLife Stadium\u2019s other team. <\/p>\n

\u201cI talked to Rex about that job at length<\/a>,\u201d Harbaugh said. \u201cRex is a guy I love and have a lot of respect for.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no word on how those conversations played out, so it\u2019s unclear if Ryan, who last coached with the Bills in 2016, was a real possibility to return to the coaching ranks this offseason. It\u2019s not the first time that his name has been bandied about for a coaching role, but the longer he remains in the broadcasting world the likelier it is that he\u2019s done calling plays on the sideline. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants hired Dennard Wilson as their defensive coordinator, but he wasn\u2019t the only one of John Harbaugh\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-470811","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\/470811","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=470811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}