Saints hire 36-year-old Kellen Moore, youngest head coach in NFL

• The New Orleans Saints had to wait until after the Super Bowl, but the team hired Eagles offensive coordinator Kellen Moore to lead their team. He becomes the youngest head coach in the NFL.
• This is the first head coaching job for Moore, who has spent six seasons as an offensive coordinator.
• Five of the seven new NFL head coaching hires are first-time head coaches.

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The New Orleans Saints have their new head coach, and he’s already won a certain big game in the Superdome. The Saints hired former Eagles Offensive Coordinator Kellen Moore to lead them into the 2025 season.

The 36-year-old Moore will have a new job for the fourth straight season, but this will be his first shot as a head coach.

Prior to his ultra-successful season in Philly, he was with the Los Angeles Chargers for a season and the Dallas Cowboys for four seasons.

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Since 2019, Moore’s offensive schemes have averaged a top-five ranking in the league. He’ll be charged with turning around a 5-12 Saints team that hasn’t made the playoffs in four years.

Moore was a star quarterback at Boise State from 2007-2011, where he finished with an NCAA-best 50-3 record. He spent 6 seasons as an NFL backup before turning to coaching.

On Thursday, Feb. 6, in the run-up to the 2025 Super Bowl, he spoke about his coaching background.

“I grew up around the game. My dad was the high school coach for our team the Prosser Mustangs, had a little Friday night lights feel to it, small town out in Washington, so those were my idols growing up,” Moore said. “That’s what I wanted to be. Every day getting done with school I would go down to the football field and I was the ball boy and I just hung around those guys. That’s really what my childhood was.”

That foundation eventually led him to the Super Bowl-champion Eagles, where his offense was top eight in both points scored and total yards this past season. With Moore calling the plays, Saquon Barkley became the ninth running back in NFL history to rush for over 2,000 yards.

Moore becomes the youngest head coach in the NFL and replaces Dennis Allen, who was fired in the middle of his third season. Seven of the five coaches hired during this year’s NFL cycle are first-time head coaches.

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Moore flew back to Philadelphia with the team after the Super Bowl but will return to New Orleans to sign his contract during the week of Feb. 10. It’s assumed he will fly back to Philadelphia for the city’s victory parade on Friday, Feb. 14, which is expected to draw over 1 million fans to the city.