The 49ers saw their coaching staff undergo a handful of changes this offseason. On Thursday they officially announced a quartet of coaching hires.
Among those hires were defensive coordinator Steve Wilks, offensive passing game specialist Klint Kubiak, defensive quality control coach Jacob Webster, and coaching operations assistant Max Molz.
Wilks will replace DeMeco Ryans, who took the head coaching job with the Houston Texans. He made his way into the NFL in 2006 as a defensive backs coach with the Bears. This is Wilks’ third time holding a defensive coordinator job in the NFL. He was the Panthers’ DC in 2017, and the Browns’ DC for the 2019 campaign. Wilks began last season as Carolina’s defensive passing game coordinator and secondary coach before becoming the interim head coach when Matt Rhule was fired.
Kubiak will replace Bobby Slowik, who went with Ryans to Houston to become the offensive coordinator. This marks the second Kubiak on staff for San Francisco. Klint’s younger brother Klay is an assistant quarterbacks coach. The elder Kubiak landed in the NFL with the Vikings as an offensive quality control coach in 2013. He spent three years as an offensive assistant with the Broncos from 2016-18, and then moved on to become the Vikings’ QB coach for two years before taking over as their offensive coordinator in 2021. Last season he was back in Denver as a passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
For Webster this marks his first NFL job. He was a graduate assistant who worked with the offense at the University of Wisconsin last year. Prior to that he was a volunteer and a defensive graduate assistant for the University of Missouri. Webster played football collegiately for the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. In four seasons, including a redshirt year, he played in 27 games and posted five catches for 41 yards.
This is also Molz’s first NFL season. He previously served as the director of football operations at Mizzou starting in 2019.
