The Arizona Cardinals have fired head coach Kliff Kingsbury 10 months after signing him to a contract extension through the 2027 season.
The team also announced that general manager Steve Keim has decided to “step away from his position in order to focus on his health.”
Like Kingsbury, Keim signed an extension in 2022 that took his contract through the 2027 season. Keim, however, has been on a health-related leave of absence since mid-December.
Keim joined the Cardinals in 1999 as a college scout and, after years in the personnel department, was promoted to general manager in 2013.
The Cardinals and the Tennessee Titans both requested GM interviews with San Francisco 49ers director of pro personnel Ran Carthon and 49ers assistant GM Adam Peters, league sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Kingsbury was hired in January 2019, just two months after he was fired from Texas Tech, to resuscitate a fledgling offense and a struggling organization.
