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Northwestern<\/a> is hiring veteran coach Chip Kelly as its new offensive coordinator, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Kelly is a two-time college coach, with Oregon and UCLA, and NFL head coach, with Philadelphia and San Francisco, who brings an expertise in varying systems and personnel.<\/p>\n The Raiders<\/a> fired Kelly<\/a> as offensive coordinator in November, his first season with the team, after a 2-9 start.<\/p>\n Kelly won a national title as the offensive coordinator at Ohio State<\/a> in 2024. He worked as New Hampshire’s OC (1999-2006) and Oregon’s OC (2007-08), and has an extensive history as a play-caller as both a coordinator and head coach. He’s in both tempo and deliberate offenses.<\/p>\n Northwestern finished No. 15 in the Big Ten in points per game in the regular season (22.5). Kelly will replace current coordinator Zach Lujan, who has a contract that expires soon.\n<\/p><\/div>\n Dec 30, 2025, 06:31 AM ET Northwestern is hiring veteran coach Chip Kelly as its new offensive coordinator, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Tuesday. Kelly is a two-time college coach, with Oregon and UCLA, and NFL head coach, with Philadelphia and San Francisco, who brings an expertise in varying systems and personnel. The Raiders … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Sources-Northwestern-hiring-veteran-coach-Chip-Kelly-as-OC.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15157,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15155\/revisions\/15157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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