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It doesn’t seem like Philip Rivers wants to stay away from professional football.
Just as he became a Hall of Fame semifinalist, Rivers pushed back his eligibility for Canton to return to the NFL after nearly five years away, playing in three games for the Indianapolis Colts last season.
But now, in his second retirement, Rivers is reportedly interviewing for the vacant Buffalo Bills coaching position.
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Indianapolis Colts quarterback Philip Rivers stands on the sideline during the first half against the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium. (Trojan Taormina/Imagn Images)
The Bills fired Sean McDermott on Monday, two days after a controversial loss to the Denver Broncos in the AFC Divisional Round. Owner Terry Pegula said the loss led to McDermott’s firing.
Rivers is currently the head coach at St. Michael Catholic High School in Fairhope, Alabama. He announced his official retirement just before the new year.
“I’m done),” Rivers said at the time. “I have a son who will be a senior and I coached the St. Michael’s football team. We got beat in the semifinals two years in a row,” he added. “So this will be his senior year. My middle son will be in ninth grade. They’ll be on the same team together.
“So it’s going to be fun to have the boys back at home. The school was really excited. A lot of them came to the game last week. It’ll be fun. It’ll jumpstart our offseason program, to say the least. Maybe the things I say to them, they’ll take a little more seriously now that I just played.”
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Philip Rivers (17) passes against the San Francisco 49ers during the first half of an NFL football game, Monday, Dec. 22, 2025, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)
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Rivers returned amid an injury to Daniel Jones, while Anthony Richardson was also not healthy.
“Everything lined up perfectly,” he said. “It was a place I had been, a team I knew the offense was exactly the same. The coach I knew. It was all those things that made it the perfect storm.
“I’m back on the bench. It was a fun three weeks of blur that no one saw coming, including me, and that will be it.”
He’s definitely back on the sidelines, but maybe it’ll be in the NFL.
Rivers totaled 544 passing yards, four touchdowns and three interceptions in those three starts. He led his NFL playing career with 63,984 passing yards and 425 passing touchdowns.
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Philip Rivers throws during the first half of an NFL game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in Indianapolis, Indiana on December 28, 2025. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
The Bills’ loss marked another blow to McDermott’s tenure as head coach of the Bills. McDermott took the job before the start of the 2017 season, and Buffalo has only finished below .500 once since then. He helped the Bills reach the playoffs in eight of his nine seasons. The team appeared in the conference title game twice but never returned to the Super Bowl.
