Who Will be the 49ers' Next Pass Game Coordinator on Offense?

The past two pass game coordinators -- Klint Kubiak and Bobby Slowik -- both are offensive coordinators right now.

Grant Cohn | Mar 7, 2024

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The 49ers have overhauled their defensive coaching staff this offseason with the firing of Steve Wilks and the addition of Brandon Staley. Now they have to add to their offensive staff.

49ers pass game coordinator Klint Kubiak recently became the New Orleans Saints offensive coordinator after just one year in Santa Clara, and the 49ers have yet to replace him.

Who will be the 49ers' next pass game coordinator?

They don't have an offensive coordinator -- that's Kyle Shanahan. He calls the plays. But the past two pass game coordinators -- Kubiak and Bobby Slowik -- both are offensive coordinators right now (Slowik is in Houston). So this position is prestigious and the fast track to career success.

The 49ers could hire a pass game coordinator from outside the organization, just as they did when they hired Kubiak away from Denver. But they also have some intriguing internal candidates: Quarterbacks coach Brian Griese, assistant quarterback coach Klay Kubiak and tight ends coach Brian Fleury.

Griese has been the 49ers QB coach the past two years and has done a tremendous job with Brock Purdy -- such a good job that the 49ers might not want to break them up. And if they promote Griese, they'd have to find another QB coach.

Kubiak has been with the 49ers since 2021 -- he spent his first season as a defensive quality control coach. He's a good candidate to replace his brother Klint, considering Klay was an offensive coordinator at a high school in Houston before he joined the 49ers.

Fleury has been with the 49ers since 2019 and has been a defensive quality control coach, an offensive quality control coach and the tight ends coach, so they've been grooming him to become a defensive coordinator. He's older and more experienced than Klay Kubiak. I'm guessing Fleury will get the job.

Stay tuned.

Published Mar 7, 2024

GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.