The New York Giants head into a very important offseason with a gaping hole on the sideline. Head coach Brian Daboll was fired following the Week 10 loss to the Chicago Bears that dropped the G-Men to 2-8. OC Mike Kafka took over on an interim basis and the Giants went 2-5 on his watch.

It is always interesting when the coach bears the brunt of the blame and his assistants are also let go, but the front office gets to hang around. That’s the case here with the Giants, as GM Joe Schoen kept his job and has the opportunity to hire his second head coach. Daboll actually took the team to the postseason in his first year with a 9-7-1 record and even won a playoff game, but it’s a results-based business and the results have been bad since.

Whoever gets the job inherits a toolsy, dual-threat QB in Jaxson Dart, a running back who will never shy away from contact, one of the game’s elite wide receivers, and a defense in need of a shake-up.

DraftKings Sportsbook has odds posted for the next Giants head coach and here they are as of Monday, January 5 at 6:30 p.m. ET.

Giants Next Head Coach Odds

  • Kevin Stefanski +200
  • Jeff Hafley +425
  • Mike McCarthy +650
  • Chris Shula +650
  • Lou Anarumo +900
  • Antonio Pierce +1200
  • Vance Joseph +1400
  • Klint Kubiak +1400
  • Jesse Minter +1400
  • Brian Flores +1400
  • Kliff Kingsbury +1700
  • Mike Kafka +2000
  • John Harbaugh +2000
  • Steve Spagnuolo +2200
  • Robert Saleh +2500
  • Joe Brady +2500
  • Zac Taylor +3000
  • Todd Monken +3000
  • Matt Burke +3000
  • Josh Grizzard +3000
  • Jon Gruden +3000
  • Bill Belichick +4000
  • Mike Tomlin +4000
  • Josh McCown +4000
  • Matt Nagy +4000
  • Jim Schwartz +4000
  • Jason Garrett +4000
  • Jeff Brohm +4000
  • Arthur Smith +5000
  • Mike McDaniel +5000
  • Grant Udinski +5000
  • Doug Pederson +5000
  • Raheem Morris +5000
  • Declan Doyle +5000
  • Davis Webb +5000
  • Dan Pitcher +5000

The 46-year-old Schoen started his career with the Panthers as an area scout and then went to the Dolphins to serve as a national scout. After three seasons in the Miami front office, he was the assistant general manager in Buffalo from 2017-21, hence the connection with Daboll. Usually you want to examine potential connections to see if it can shed some light on the short list for a GM. With this hiring cycle, there really aren’t many for the Giants.

Let’s look at the top five candidates per the odds and see if there’s a worthwhile bet in the bunch:

Kevin Stefanski +200

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Stefanski hadn’t even been fired and it was being reported that the Giants would be very interested if he were to be available. As it turns out, he is, and Stefanski’s balanced demeanor could work out well in a cutthroat media market like New York. He’s also got plenty of head coaching experience and has been viewed as something of an offensive guru, which feels like something Schoen and owners John Mara and Steve Tisch would be interested in given the composition of the roster.

Easy call to be the favorite and may very well get the job.

Jeff Hafley +450

It would be a homecoming for Hafley, a native of Montvale, NJ. Schoen tried to go the offensive route with Daboll and Hafley, a longtime defensive assistant who is the Packers defensive coordinator at present, would represent a change of pace in that regard. Schoen and Hafley could then collaborate on an offensive coordinator, possibly Luke Getsy, who is currently on Matt LaFleur’s staff and was the OC of the Bears in 2022-23 and the Raiders in 2024. While Getsy has worked a lot with QBs, he has produced strong running games at the NFL and college levels, something that could help Schoen erase the memory of letting Saquon Barkley walk.

Personally, I don’t think Schoen will make another hire without NFL head coaching experience. Hafley was the head coach at Boston College and left to be Green Bay’s DC after posting just a 22-26 record.

Mike McCarthy +650

Could McCarthy find his way back to the NFC East? McCarthy can definitely be the adult in the room with some big personalities on the offensive side and does check the box as an offensive-minded guy if Schoen and his staff will look to go that route again. He’s also got extensive head coaching experience if that does matter to the decision-makers in this equation. Also, a year away from the sidelines for the 62-year-old may have relit that competitive fire.

Of the single-digit odds, this is the one worthy of consideration in my mind. Stefanski’s price isn’t high enough and it’s a fairly safe hire for Schoen, who has self-preservation at the forefront of his mind right now.

Chris Shula +650

If you ask me, even though Hafley is a New Jersey native and has been talked about a bit already with the Giants job, Shula should be higher on the list for every team, including the Giants. Maybe Hafley does have the goods to be a head coach in the NFL and he has at least been one at the collegiate level. Shula looks like another branch of the Sean McVay coaching tree that will be fawned over during this hiring cycle. The 39-year-old Miami native also spent a year at John Carroll University in University Heights, where the stadium bears his grandfather’s name.

Shula checks all the boxes. NFL bloodline. McVay. Young. He’s 39 years old and teams will want the next Mike Macdonald. But, I’m not sure Schoen wants to go the defensive route or take a fairly big swing with a somewhat unproven guy given how his first hire failed.

Lou Anarumo +900

Local ties are involved here, as the Staten Island native looks for his first head coaching gig. The shine seemed to come off of Anarumo the longer he was with the Bengals, as he served in the DC role from 2019-24. He got a fresh start with the Colts in 2025 and Indianapolis finished around the league average in yards per play allowed, slightly above average in takeaways and pressures, and red zone defense. That said, they had a bottom-10 third down defense and Anarumo was part of the big Colts collapse this season, which was more about the Daniel Jones injury than anything else.

Anarumo did spend one season as the Giants defensive backs coach in 2018 under Pat Shurmur. I don’t think that connection is really enough and feel like the Giants are looking for more of a name and a spark.

Potential Long Shots for Giants Next Head Coach

Vance Joseph +1400

Joseph did not work out as a head coach for the first time with the Broncos in 2017-18, but he’s found a lot of success as a defensive coordinator, including the last three seasons with the Broncos. There are incidents of sexual assault and harassment in Joseph’s past, back in 2004 as the University of Colorado’s defensive backs coach. Those were brought up in 2017 when he was hired as the Broncos coach and would inevitably be brought up again by the New York media if he were to be hired. It probably wouldn’t be a deal-breaker for Schoen, Mara, and Tisch, but it’s at least a thought.

Personally, I don’t believe that Joseph is near the top of the list here, but an interview wouldn’t be surprising, especially with the Rooney Rule.

Todd Monken +3000

The Ravens are considering some big shake-ups and I can’t help but wonder if Monken is part of them. Monken has never been an NFL head coach, which probably is a priority for Schoen. That being said, he is a guy that has held high-level positions in lots of places, including his current role as the Ravens OC. Monken had three years as the HC at Southern Miss and finished with a 9-5 season after starting 4-20 over the first two seasons.

The egg on Schoen’s face from the Barkley fiasco could have some influence in the hire that he makes and Monken is clearly a guy who understands run schemes. I still don’t think Schoen wants to hire a guy who hasn’t been a head coach in the NFL, but the 30/1 price is intriguing if he does get fired by Baltimore.

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