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Klint Kubiak is another rising candidate in the 2026 head coaching class in the NFL. This one is a bit more personal to me because this is a guy that I’ve had my eye on since week one. I felt like he was an OC who got a bad shake at things and was very excited when I saw he was getting one more shot from the Seahawks, and my Seahawks friends were also very excited (they also have had very high praise for him as the season has gone on). One of them even keeps begging me to stop bringing up the idea of someone poaching him for a head coaching position. Anyway, the bottom line is, everyone is excited about Kubiak, a new hotshot candidate that can be the next wonder boy of offensive schematics. The truth is, though, like every offensive guru, he still has his negatives. So, let’s get into his background, his positives, and his negatives. With some of the highest highs and lowest lows, here is the head coaching profile of Klint Kubiak.
To start, Klint Kubiak had much less humble beginnings than Chris Shula did. While Shula started as an assistant linebackers coach at Ball State, Klint immediately got his start at Texas A&M as an offensive quality control coach. He spent two years with that title and then became a grad assistant in his third year at A&M. Then he got called up to the big leagues. He was asked to be an offensive quality control coach with the Minnesota Vikings and spent two years in that position, and then went back to college to be a wide receivers coach at Kansas, where he spent one year. After that, he went to the Denver Broncos as an offensive assistant, where he was able to coach with his dad for the first year and then remained there for an extra two years in the same title. After that, Mike Zimmer called him up to be Kirk Cousins’ QB coach in 2019, where Klint (alongside Kevin Stefanski) helped Kirk have a nice bounce-back year. Then, he stayed around in 2020 with his dad as the offensive coordinator. After 2020, though, he got the big job, offensive coordinator for the Vikings, where his offense ranked 12th in total yards, not bad, but with a head coach out the door, and an offensive mind on the way in, he was never going to stay. So, Klint met up with the son of one of his dad’s closest friends, Kyle Shanahan, in San Francisco, where he served as the passing game coordinator as a reset. He got his second shot with the New Orleans Saints, where after the unit looked unstoppable for three weeks, then reality hit. The offense ranked 21st with a head coach on the way out again. Most people knew he wasn’t the problem, though, and teams gave him interviews where he got his most likely last chance as an...
