With two head coaching spots filled today we had the Denver Broncos hire former New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton and the Houston Texans hire the San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Demeco Ryans, let’s go through each hire and what this means for the teams.
First let’s start of with possibly the biggest story in weeks with Sean Payton going to the Denver Broncos, with Payton retiring from coaching the New Orleans Saints last season, Payton was still under contract going into this cycle of head coaches meaning that any team who wanted to trade for Sean had to give the Saints draft capital in return for the rights to Payton. The Denver Broncos gave up a king’s ransom of a 2023 first round pick, and a second round pick in 2024. The Broncos do get a third round pick in the 2024 draft to go with Payton. The compensation for what the Broncos are hiring Payton to is uncertain but it’s likely to be over twenty million per year.
Lastly we have the Houston Texans hiring San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Demeco Ryans, with Ryans being one of the top coaching candidates this year, Demeco and the Texans have been linked for a couple weeks now ever since the firing of Lovie Smith. With Demeco coordinating a top three defense in the league this year he led the 49ers defense to a NFC Championship game. This could be a big deal for the Texans as they have landed a potentially great head coach in Demeco Ryans as Ryans was under the famous tree of Kyle Shanahan coaches.
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