{"id":507396,"date":"2026-01-26T12:13:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=507396"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:13:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:13:48","slug":"rivers-withdraws-from-buffalo-head-coaching-search","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rivers-withdraws-from-buffalo-head-coaching-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers withdraws from Buffalo head coaching search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-NFL QB Philip Rivers has withdrawn from the Buffalo Bills&#8217; coaching search.<\/p>\n<p>Philip, who has no experience at the collegiate or professional level, was interviewed by Buffalo at the end of last week in Florida.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Philip Rivers is out of the Bills HC sweepstakes. After interviewing with Buffalo, he\u2019s withdrawing himself from consideration, per sources. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2RhouF270c\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2RhouF270c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dianna Russini (@DMRussini) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DMRussini\/status\/2015772018180784202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But 3 days later, the 44-year-old Philip pulled his name from contention for the position.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo, which is looking to appoint a replacement for Sean McDermott, is scheduled to interview the Broncos pass game coordinator, Davis Webb, today.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills are also considering the Jaguars&#8217; OC Grant Udinski, who withdrew his name from the Browns coaching search today. Grant also agreed to a new deal with Jacksonville that features a raise for the 2026 campaign if he is not appointed as Buffalo\u2019s manager.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers, who returned to the league in December and started 3 matches with the Colts, was considered 1 of the Bills\u2019 more interesting candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo\u2019s starting quarterback, Allen, is taking part in the interview process being led by GM Brandon Beane and owner Terry Pegula, and will be a crucial factor for the appointment of the new head coach, who will lead the Bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-NFL QB Philip Rivers has withdrawn from the Buffalo Bills&#8217; coaching search. Philip, who has no experience at the collegiate or professional level, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507397,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17370,27018],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18188,27019],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Philip withdrew from the Bills' coaching search.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507398,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507396\/revisions\/507398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507396"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=507396"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=507396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}