New Orleans Saints fill vacancy at head coach
Philadelphia offensive coordinator Kellen Moore helped the Eagles defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 in Super Bowl LIX on Sunday at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans to cap the NFL’s 2024 season.
In the NFL’s 2025 season, Moore will have his home games in the Superdome after the New Orleans Saints reached an agreement on Tuesday for him to become their head coach, NFL Network, nola.com and ESPN reported.
The Saints posted a 5-12 record in the 2024 season, their worst showing since going 3-13 in 2005, and missed the playoffs for the fourth year in a row.
New Orleans fired coach Dennis Allen nine games into his third season as its head coach after a 23-22 loss to the Carolina Panthers on Nov. 3 extended the Saints’ losing streak to seven games and dropped their record to 2-7.
Special-teams coordinator Darren Rizzi completed the season as New Orleans’ interim head coach.
Allen had an 18-25 record in New Orleans. He served seven seasons as the defensive coordinator of the Saints before following Sean Payton as the head coach.
Moore has been an offensive coordinator in the NFL for the past six seasons — with the Dallas Cowboys from 2019 through 2022 and the Los Angeles Chargers in 2023 before joining the Eagles as for 2024.
As Boise State’s quarterback, Moore finished seventh in 2009, fourth in 2010 and eighth in 2011 in the voting for the Heisman Trophy. He spent six seasons in the NFL as a player but appeared in only three regular-season games.
Moore is the sixth head coach hired in the NFL since the end of the 2024 regular season. The other new head coaches in 2025 will be Liam Coen with the Jacksonville Jaguars, Pete Carroll with the Las Vegas Raiders, Aaron Glenn with the New York Jets, Ben Johnson with the Chicago Bears and Mike Vrabel with the New England Patriots.
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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.