USFL 2022: Ranking All 8 Teams' Coaching Staffs ft. Jeff Fisher, Skip Holtz and Todd Haley

Top 5 head coaches in the USFL:

Kirby Wilson will lead the Pittsburgh Maulers of the USFL.

#5 - Kirby Wilson, Pittsburgh Maulers

Kirby Wilson has had a long career. He has bounced around the NFL and NCAA Power Five conferences, working at various roles since 1995. He began his career at community colleges in California in the 80s.

He's held roles as both a wide receiver and running backs coach, but he's been consistently getting professional RB coaching roles since 2002. Wilson's NFL experience should be helpful to players hoping to use the USFL as a springboard to the league.

The USFL will be a good interview for Kevin Sumlin.

#4 - Kevin Sumlin, Houston Gamblers

Kevin Sumlin made a critical career mistake when he joined the Arizona football program in 2018. The Wildcats are a basketball school, and Sumlin's head coaching record in Tucson was a putrid 9-20.

His stop in the desert was Sumlin's only head coaching tenure that didn't end with a record featuring roughly double the amount of wins as losses. During his stops with Houston and Texas A&M, he amassed an 86-43 record.

The USFL is Sumlin's redemption opportunity. Given his fruitful time in Texas, perhaps coaching the Houston Gamblers is the best fit for his future success, even if every game will be played in Alabama.

Skip Holtz' sour end to his Louisiana Tech career leads way to a new USFL beginning.

#3 - Skip Holtz, Birmingham Stallions

As the head coach of the only true home team during the 2022 USFL schedule, Skip Holtz has the chance to make more than just the local fans happy during the season, which starts April 16 at 7:30 ET.

His team will face the New Jersey Generals in the league's very first game. It'll be Holtz' first game coaching since late November when his Louisiana Tech Bulldogs lost the ninth game of the 2021 season, marking the end of his time in Ruston.

Holtz' coaching record has taken a nosedive since going 10-3 in 2019 and beating Miami in the Independence Bowl. Coaching the hometown team to victory would be a great way to transition into his next college head coaching job.

Todd Haley is back to coaching as a pro in the USFL after serving as a high school offensive coordinator.

#2 - Todd Haley, Tampa Bay Bandits

Todd Haley has this high of a ranking on this list because he was the mastermind behind an Arizona offense in 2008 that was considered one of the NFL's best that season. Those Cardinals reached Super Bowl XLIII but fell short to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

From there, Haley took a head coaching job with the Kansas City Chiefs that frankly didn't pay dividends for him in the slightest. He lost his first five games and had a public spat with star RB Larry Johnson that led to Johnson's release.

He stuck with the Steelers for five years and then had a brief stint in Cleveland before taking a high school coaching job in 2020. Haley could put his name back into NFL coaching conversations with a successful USFL coaching run.

Jeff Fisher has the most star power of any USFL coach.

#1 - Jeff Fisher, Michigan Panthers

Jeff Fisher took five years off from coaching, following his head coaching stint with the Los Angeles Rams. Even still, no USFL coach for the upcoming 2022 season has the rapport with any team that Fisher had with the Houston/Tennessee Oilers/Titans. For 15 years, and through a relocation and a rebrand, Fisher was the man in Texas and Tennessee.

Fisher was fired from the Rams in 2016 midseason right after the team announced an extension through the 2018 season less than two weeks earlier. That breach of trust likely had to do with his long hiatus away from the game.

He's back now, though, and he has a huge opportunity to return to prominence by parlaying this USFL opportunity into an NFL head coaching job.