The Dolphins are scheduled to interview another former Mike McDaniel colleagueAnother former Mike McDaniel colleague has been identified as a candidate for the Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator opening, according to reports.

The latest is Houston Texans linebackers coach Chris Kiffin, who worked as pass rush specialist for the San Francisco 49ers in 2018-19 when McDaniel was their run game coordinator.

Kiffin, the son of longtime NFL DC Monte Kiffin and the brother of University of Mississippi head coach Lane Kiffin, joined Houston in 2023 after spending three seasons as defensive line coach with the Cleveland Browns.

Bobby Babich was a highly regarded linebackers coach for the Buffalo Bills and they clearly thought he was ready to become a defensive coordinator and that’s why they promoted him to that position Tuesday afternoon.

Babich, who will turn 41 in July, has been an NFL assistant since 2011 with stints with the Carolina Panthers and the Cleveland Browns, sandwiched around one year as defensive pass game coordinator at Florida International University in Miami.

Babich and Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel worked together in 2014 when both were on the Browns coaching staff. Babich was an assistant defensive backs coach.

McDaniel seemingly is taking a look at one of his former coaching colleagues as a possible candidate for the Miami Dolphins’ vacant defensive coordinator position.

According to The Athletic, the Dolphins will interview Baltimore Ravens associate head coach and defensive line coach Anthony Weaver for the position that became open when Vic Fangio left Miami to join the Philadelphia Eagles.

McDaniel and Weaver, a former NFL player who had previously served as the 2020 defensive coordinator of the Houston Texans, worked together in 2014 when they were members of Mike Pettine’s coaching staff with the Cleveland Browns.

McDaniel coached the Browns receivers for that one season and Weaver coached the Browns’ defensive linemen from 2014-15.

Weaver was interviewed for the Atlanta Falcons and the Washington Commanders head coach vacancies. He has spent most of his career as a defensive line coach, but he’s served as a defensive coordinator for that one season in Houston, and served as a run game coordinator in 2021 with the Baltimore Ravens, and was named associate head coach last season.