Rumors of Nick Saban’s return to the NFL have become an off-season staple for the Alabama coach. There’s a good reason for this: the NFL wants him.
According to Bleacher Report NFL columnist Mike Freeman, every single NFL team with a coaching vacancy this off-season – all six – contacted Saban or his representatives to gauge his interest.
“A league source told me that every NFL team with a coaching opening contacted Alabama’s Nick Saban,” Freeman writes. “All were emphatically told ‘no thanks.’ I’m not certain whether Saban told them this directly. It could have been Saban’s agent or some intermediary.