Former Cincinnati Bengals player Eric Bieniemy, who has served as the Chiefs' offensive coordinator since 2018 after coaching Kansas City's running backs for five seasons, completed an interview Friday for the Denver Broncos' head-coaching vacancy, the team announced Friday night via Twitter.
The Broncos confirmed Thursday that they completed an interview with Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan for the same position.
Last September, Bieniemy answered questions about being a potential head-coaching candidate at University of Southern California. "Well you know me - you guys know me. I am where my feet are," Bieniemy told reporters. "I am focused on the task at hand. I'm not worried about anything where my name is being mentioned."
Bieniemy, a running back and kick returner for the Bengals from 1995 to 1998, was passed over by NFL teams with head-coaching vacancies last year.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes said last year that it would be crazy for an NFL team with a head coaching vacancy not to strongly consider hiring Bieniemy.
"(Bieniemy's) track record speaks for itself," Mahomes said in a radio interview. "The type of man he is, the way he can control and be a leader of the locker room and the way that he coaches and schemes he brings to us. If he doesn’t (get a position as a head coach), people are crazy."
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