Coming into the NFL’s offseason, the Kansas City Chiefs had two head coaches in waiting: offensive coordinator Matt Nagy and special teams coordinator Dave Toub. If that sounds presumptuous, it’s not, since multiple NFL analysts were saying as much in their own potential head coaching projections.
It’s also par for the course in a league where nearly one quarter of all head coaches are members of Andy Reid’s family (coaching) tree.
Nagy was the ascending young talent on Reid’s staff, a promising head coach being trained by one of the best game planners in the business. Nagy had replaced former offensive coordinator Doug Pederson, who went on to become the Philadelphia Eagles head coach, and the right hand of Reid is always a prime spot for the taking.