
Jeff Saturday knows something about stepping into a job from off the couch.
When the Colts, for whom Saturday played center from 1999 to 2011, fired Frank Reich in 2022, owner Jim Irsay did not tab an existing member of the coaching staff to lead the franchise in the back half of the season. He didn’t choose someone with a lick of NFL coaching experience either, instead installing Saturday in the job. Saturday was an ESPN analyst at the time, and the extent of his coaching experience came in three seasons at the high school level in Georgia. He went just 1–7 leading the franchise and returned to media at the end of the season.