The New Orleans Saints interviewed former Cincinnati Bengals player Eric Bieniemy - the Chiefs' offensive coordinator since 2018 who coached Kansas City's running backs the previous five seasons, for their head-coaching vacancy on Sunday - one week after the Chiefs were eliminated from the playoffs by the Bengals.
ESPN's Jeremy Fowler reported Sunday via Twitter that Bieniemy spent nearly eight hours with the Saints in-person.
The Denver Broncos announced last month that they interviewed Bieniemy for their head-coaching vacancy. The Broncos hired Green Bay Packers offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett as their head coach days later.
Last September, Bieniemy answered questions about being a potential head-coaching candidate at University of Southern California. "Well you 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 considered a candidate by several 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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