It’s been a bizarre few days for Denver defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero.
One day after his defense got ripped for the first time this season, head coach Nathaniel Hackett, among his best friends, got fired.
Then, on Tuesday, general manager George Paton and CEO Greg Penner sang Evero’s praises in a news conference and said they’d like to interview him for the head coaching position.
That doesn’t mean Evero is a favorite for the job — he’d be a fourth consecutive first-time head coach after three straight failures in that department and this is his first year as a coordinator — but it does reiterate what’s become clear over the course of the season: Evero’s star is on the rise in the NFL.