5 NFL teams who should try to lure Ryan Day from Ohio State
Ryan Day may have no desire to leave Ohio State, but these 5 NFL teams should try to lure him to the pros anyway.
With Urban Meyer on administrative leave, Ryan Day stepped in as Ohio State’s acting head coach for the first three games of the 2018 season and went 3-0. When Meyer retired after that campaign, Day became the permanent head coach and went 13-1 with a College Football Playoff appearance in 2019.
The Buckeyes are 4-0 this season after narrowly beating upstart Indiana on Saturday, and Day can probably have the job in Columbus as long as he wants it. He’s an easily rumored candidate for NFL head coaching jobs, leaving him to answer questions about it. Just this past week, he professed his affinity for the job he has.
#Buckeyes Ryan Day talking about NFL, how it's designed for every team to go 8-8 and when you go 8-8, owners want to know why you didn't win more. Says it's different in college.
— Adam Rittenberg (@ESPNRittenberg) November 17, 2020
Buckeye fans will like this: "I believe this is the best place in America, the best job in America."
Day has two seasons of experience as an NFL assistant, as quarterbacks coach for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2015 and the San Francisco 49ers in 2016. Both of those campaigns were under Chip Kelly as the head coach, during is final season with the Eagles and his lone dismal season with the 49ers.
It’s easy for Day to say Ohio State is the best job in America, and he’s well compensated as the Buckeyes’ head coach (12th-highest paid head coach in the country, per USA TODAY). But the lure of the NFL will be out there, and these five teams should make an effort to bring Day to the pros.
5 teams that should try to lure Ryan Day to the NFL
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The Broncos are just 3-6 this season, and Drew Lock may not be the long-term answer under center apart from his struggles to stay healthy. Vic Fangio was an uninspiring hire as head coach, and a 10-16 record thus far into his second season far backs that up.
His status as a franchise icon has bought Broncos’ general manager John Elway a lot of leash. In parallel with the failure to find a quarterback since Peyton Manning retired is his choosing of head coaches (Vance Joseph and Fangio).
Elway might get one more shot to choose a head coach, and try to find a franchise quarterback, before questions about his job security really ramp up. The uncertainty in the Broncos’ ownership situation in the wake of Pat Bowlen’s death will linger into 2021, thus buying Elway time to get things right. A firing of Fangio and an effort to get Day to Denver shouldn’t be ruled out.