For the primary time in practically a decade, it seems that Jay Harbaugh will not be working for his father, Jim, this fall.
Following his four-season run as the top coach of the San Francisco 49ers from 2011-14, Jim Harbaugh was employed as Michigan’s new lead man in December 2014. The 60-year-old’s son was introduced on in January 2015 and commenced because the crew’s tight ends coach and as an assistant particular groups coach for 2 seasons.
The now-34-year-old remained together with his father all through his 9 seasons with the Wolverines, serving because the operating backs and particular groups coach from 2017-2020, tight ends and particular groups coach once more in 2021 and the safeties and particular groups coach in 2022 and 2023.
The youthful Harbaugh additionally labored underneath his uncle, John Harbaugh, for 3 seasons with the Baltimore Ravens from 2012-14. He spent his closing yr in Baltimore working with Mike Macdonald, who served as an intern in 2014.
Whereas Harbaugh labored for his father in Michigan, Macdonald was a member of John Harbaugh’s workers by the 2023 marketing campaign, aside from the 2021 season.
Macdonald rose from intern to defensive assistant (2015-16) and was then the crew’s defensive backs coach in 2017. The Boston, Massachusetts native served because the Ravens linebackers coach from 2018-2020 earlier than becoming a member of the Wolverines in 2021 as their defensive coordinator.
Macdonald then jumped again to the NFL and the Ravens, incomes a fame as one of many recreation’s finest defensive coordinators from 2021-23. He was employed because the Seattle Seahawks head coach final week, turning into the youngest within the league for the function at 36 years previous.
It was reported as just lately as late final week that Jay Harbaugh was anticipated to affix his father with the Los Angeles Chargers but it surely now appears that he’ll be reuniting with Macdonald in Seattle as an alternative.
