Kellen Moore, who oversaw the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles’ offense this season, agreed to return to the site of his latest triumph as the next coach of the New Orleans Saints.

Moore, 36, will join an organization that has been floundering since the retirement of quarterback Drew Brees and departure of Super Bowl-winning coach Sean Payton. The Saints haven’t made the playoffs since the 2020 season — the last of Brees’ career.

Their interest in Moore became increasingly evident as the club waited longer to fill its vacancy than any other NFL team seeking a new coach this year.

Moore was the only assistant coach on either Super Bowl team to be interviewed by New Orleans and thus the only candidate who, under league rules, could not be hired until after Sunday’s title game was played. The Saints announced their agreement with Moore on Tuesday.

Their decision mirrors that of several teams that have found success after hiring relatively young offensive coaches. They included the Rams with Sean McVay, Green Bay with Matt LaFleur, Miami with Mike McDaniel and Minnesota with 2024 AP Coach of the Year Kevin O’Connell. All four of those coaches were hired while in their 30s.

A standout college quarterback at Boise State, Moore had a six-year career as a practice squad or reserve QB with Detroit (2012-2014) and Dallas (2015-2017). He played in just three regular-season games, all with the Cowboys in 2015.

He moved into coaching in 2018 as a quarterbacks coach and was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2019. He left Dallas to join the Chargers in 2023 before moving to Philadelphia in 2024.

While Moore tended to favor pass-heavy schemes in his early years as a coordinator, he adapted when he joined the Eagles.

Recognizing Philadelphia’s strength as a running team — with its big, physical offensive line, star running back Saquon Barkley and mobile quarterback Jalen Hurts — Moore oversaw the NFL’s second-ranked ground game in 2024.

The Eagles rushed for a franchise-record 3,048 yards, with Barkley gaining 2,005 of that before adding an additional 499 yards in four playoff games. And when the Chiefs limited Barkley to 57 yards rushing in the Super Bowl, Moore responded with well-timed passing plays that included touchdowns of 46 yards to DeVonta Smith and 12 yards to A.J. Brown.

Moore takes over an offense featuring versatile running back Alvin Kamara and receiver Chris Olave.

Moore discussed how he tries feature the strengths of available personnel in his play-calling while in New Orleans for the Super Bowl this past week.

“You have certain things that you have strong feelings about from a coaching perspective — certain philosophies — but I think it’s important to do what your players do best,” Moore said. “Going from Dallas to LA to Philadelphia, we’ve certainly played three different styles, and it’s fun when you team up with people just building it however we want to.”

The Chargers hired Adam Fuller to be their new safeties coach, replacing Chris O’Leary, who was named the defensive coordinator and safeties coach at Western Michigan University. Fuller spent the past five seasons as the defensive coordinator at Florida State.

O’Leary was with the Chargers for one season after spending six seasons in various defensive coaching roles at Notre Dame. The Chargers defense was the NFL’s stingiest during the 2024 regular season, giving up an average of 17.7 points per game en route to an 11-6 record.

Fuller coached 14 eventual NFL draft picks, including outside linebacker Jared Verse of the Rams, the NFL’s defensive rookie of the year for the 2024 season. The Seminoles, led by their defense, were 13-1 and won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship during the 2023 season.

What’s more, the Seminoles gave up just eight passing touchdowns in 2023.

This will be Fuller’s first job in the NFL.

— Elliott Teaford

SKIING

Born 10 months apart, Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson have known each other since they were placed in the same room at a junior race when they were 11. According to Shiffrin, they were “a little bit lost in a world where young girls were not really supposed to be as ambitious as we were.”

Now both 29, Shiffrin is the sport’s most accomplished racer of all time and Johnson — until just a few days ago — was someone who had struggled to break through and realize her potential.

So you might think that when Johnson and Shiffrin were paired together in the new team combined race at the world championships that Shiffrin would be the one taking the role of leader.

Turns out it was Johnson, who had just won an unexpected gold medal in downhill.

That’s because Shiffrin didn’t really want to compete.

Struggling to overcome her “PTSD-esque” fears following a nasty crash on home snow in Killington, Vt., in November, that left her with a deep puncture wound on the side of her abdomen, Shiffrin had to be convinced by Johnson to race — and their longtime friendship meant that Johnson had no qualms in reaching out.

“I haven’t felt like I wanted to be here,” Shiffrin said. “So to hear her talking about this like, ‘No, no, it’s fun,’ and she’s throwing herself down this downhill like fearless … She really lifted me up to be able to fully take on this day.”

Take it on they did.

The new event entails one racer competing in a downhill run and another in a slalom run, with their times added together to determine the final results.

Johnson put Shiffrin in the perfect attacking position by placing fourth in the downhill and then Shiffrin cast aside her fears with a solid slalom run to secure gold for the American duo in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria.

When Shiffrin took the lead with three skiers still to go, Johnson ran out into the finish area and embraced her teammate.

It was Johnson’s second gold in four days and Shiffrin’s 15th career medal at the worlds, matching the record set by German skier Christl Cranz in the 1930s.

“Thank you for a memory that tops the list of any medal I’ve ever won,” Shiffrin told Johnson.

So after all was said and done there was no more second-guessing the U.S. team’s selections for an event in which Lindsey Vonn had campaigned to race with Shiffrin in a skiing “dream team.”

Vonn, making a comeback at age 40, finished 16th with her partner, AJ Hurt.

Super-G bronze medalist Lauren Macuga led the downhill leg but Paula Moltzan, her partner on yet another American team, couldn’t maintain the lead — leaving them in fourth.

The silver medalists were Lara Gut-Behrami and Wendy Holdener, Swiss skiers claiming their ninth and eighth medals, respectively, at the worlds. Super-G winner Stephanie Venier and Katharina Truppe of Austria took bronze.

MISCELLANY

The Department of Education took another step in advancing the Trump administration’s new transgender policy for sports by asking the NCAA and a key high-school sports organization to restore titles, awards and records it says have been “misappropriated by biological males competing in female categories.”

The department’s office of general counsel sent a letter requesting the changes to the National Federation of State High School Associations and the NCAA.