Grading NFL's First-Year Head Coaches at 2020 Midway Point

Grading NFL's First-Year Head Coaches at 2020 Midway Point

It isn't easy being a first-year head coach in the NFL in 2020.

The challenges of taking over a team and molding it to your image is tough enough as it is. Just ask Freddie Kitchens, who lasted only 351 days as the Cleveland Browns head coach before the organization decided to go another direction.

Throw in Zoom meetings, no preseason and a summer of uncertainty over whether a season would even occur and that challenge becomes daunting.

Five coaches took on that task this offseason. While there has certainly been some adversity, the truth is that coaches face tough evaluations from the day they take the job. The midway point of their…