The Tennessee Titans, previously known as the Houston Oilers and Tennessee Oilers, are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. They are a member of the South division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Tennessee Titans have had 20 head coaches in its franchise history. As the Houston Oilers based in Houston, Texas, the team began playing in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL). The Oilers won two AFL championships before joining the NFL as part of the AFL-NFL merger. The team relocated to Tennessee in 1997 and played in Memphis for one season before moving to Nashville. For two seasons, the team was known as the Tennessee Oilers before changing its name to the Titans in 1999.
Head coach Jeff Fisher led the Titans to their only Super Bowl appearance in Super Bowl XXXIV following the 1999 season. He continued his success with playoff appearances in 2000, 2002, and 2003. His coaching career began to decline and, from 2004 to 2010, his only playoff appearances included 2007 and 2008. In January 2011, it was announced that Fisher and the Titans had mutually parted ways. Fisher's tenure at head coach from 1994 to 2010 included six playoff appearances, one AFC Championship appearance, and one Super Bowl appearance. His 142 wins and 120 losses are each a franchise record for a Titans head coach.
Following Fisher, the Titans promoted former player and longtime offensive line coach Mike Munchak to head coach. He missed the playoffs from 2011 to 2013 before being fired in January 2014. Ken Whisenhunt became head coach shortly after, and tied a franchise worst 2–14 record in 2014. Mike Mularkey, who was originally hired as tight ends coach in 2014 and promoted to assistant head coach in 2015, replaced Whisenhunt on an interim basis after a 1–6 start in 2015. Mularkey was retained as head coach and led the Titans to two 9–7 seasons, including a playoff appearance in 2017.
Mularkey and the Titans agreed to part ways in January 2018. Former NFL player and coach, Mike Vrabel, was hired as head coach soon after. In his first four seasons, Vrabel led the Titans to an AFC Championship appearance in 2019, back-to-back AFC South division titles in 2020 and 2021, and earned the #1 seed for the AFC in the 2021–22 NFL playoffs. For his team's performance in 2021, Vrabel was named that season's NFL Coach of the Year. After back-to-back losing seasons in 2022 and 2023, Vrabel was fired by the Titans in January 2024. Shortly afterwards, former Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan was hired as the franchise's 20th head coach. After going 3–14 in 2024, and beginning the season 1–5 in 2025, Callahan was fired in October of that year. The Titans then named senior offensive assistant Mike McCoy, who had been a head coach for the San Diego Chargers earlier in his career, as their new interim head coach. The current head coach of the Titans is Robert Saleh.
Key # Number of coaches GC Games coached W Wins L Losses T Ties Win% Winning percentage † Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach ‡ Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player * Spent entire NFL head coaching career with the Oilers/Titans
Coaches Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2025 NFL season. # Image Name Term Regular season Playoffs Achievements Reference GC W L T Win% GC W L Win% Houston Oilers1 Lou Rymkus*1960–1961*191171110UPI AFL Coach of the Year (1960)AFL Championship (1960) 2Wally Lemm19619900110UPI AFL Coach of the Year (1961)AFL Championship (1961) 3Pop Ivy1962–19632817110101 4Sammy Baugh ‡1964144100000 5Hugh Taylor*1965*144100000 –Wally Lemm1966–19707028384202 6Ed Hughes*1971*14491000 7Bill Peterson*1972–1973*191180000 8Sid Gillman †1973–1974238150000UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1974) 9Bum Phillips1975–19809055350743 10Ed Biles*1981–1983*318230000 11Chuck Studley*1983*10280000 12Hugh Campbell*1984–1985*308220000 13Jerry Glanville1985–19896533320523 14Jack Pardee1990–19947443310514 15Jeff Fisher1994–19963816220000 Tennessee Oilers1997–19983216160000 Tennessee Titans1999–20101921108201156 16Mike Munchak ‡*2011–2013*4822260000 17Ken Whisenhunt2014–2015233200000 18Mike Mularkey2015–2017412021021119 Mike Vrabel 2018–2023 99 54 45 0 5 2 3AP Coach of the Year (2021) 20 *2024–2025* 23 4 19 0000 21 2025 11 2 9 0000 22 2026–present 3 0 3 0000
Notes A running total of the number of Oilers/Titans head coaches. Thus, any head coach who has two or more terms is only counted once. Each year is linked to an article about that particular Oilers/Titans season. Wally Lemm's full coaching record with the Oilers is 79 regular season games coached with a record of 37–38–4 and a W–L percentage of , and 3 playoff games coached with a record of 1–2 and a W–L percentage of . Jeff Fisher's full coaching record with the Oilers/Titans is 262 regular season games coached with a record of 142–120–0 and a W–L percentage of , and 11 playoff games coached with a record of 5–6 and a W–L percentage of .
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