For 13 seasons now, Andy Reid has manned the sidelines for the Kansas City Chiefs and has easily become the greatest head coach in team history, winning a franchise-record 149 regular-season games and 18 postseason contests to break the previous marks of 124 and five, respectively, set by Hank Stram.
Oh, and let's certainly not forget that Reid has led the Chiefs to nine AFC West titles, 11 trips to the playoffs, seven trips to the AFC Championship Game, five Super Bowl appearances, and three championships.
From an overall historical perspective, only two head coaches have won more Super Bowls than Reid, those being Bill Belichick (six) and Chuck Noll, and only three have more regular-season victories than Reid's 279 (he had 130 with the Philadelphia Eagles), those being Don Shula (328), George Halas (318), and Belichick (302).
Yeah, the guy's been pretty good. So, naturally, when we ran across a new set of power rankings for NFL head coaches heading into the 2026 season from Bleacher Report's Gary Davenport, we expected Reid to be near the top. He fell just short of the top spot, which ultimately went to the Los Angeles Rams' Sean McVay, but he did take the No. 2 position. Here's a quick look at how the list shook out:
- Sean McVay, Los Angeles Rams
- Andy Reid, Kansas City Chiefs
- Kyle Shanahan, San Francisco 49ers
- Mike Macdonald, Seattle Seahawks
- Sean Payton, Denver Broncos
- Nick Sirianni, Philadelphia Eagles
- Mike Vrabel, New England Patriots
- Jim Harbaugh, Los Angeles Chargers
- Dan Campbell, Detroit Lions
- DeMeco Ryans, Houston Texans
The Chiefs missing the playoffs may have knocked Reid out of the top spot
Of the 10 head coaches to make the list, you may notice that the vast majority made the playoffs this past year, the only two exceptions being Dan Campbell and, of course, Andy Reid.
Now, we can't exactly know for sure if the Chiefs missing out on the postseason for the first time since Reid's second season in Kansas City in 2014 is what kept it from taking the No. 1 spot, but it certainly didn't help. And Davenport did open his section on the future Hall of Famer with this sentence: "When the Kansas City Chiefs missed the playoffs last year, some people took it as a harbinger of the apocalypse—because Andy Reid-led teams don't miss the playoffs very often."
So, it was at least on his mind a little bit. And that last statement was certainly correct, as in his 27 seasons between the Eagles and Chiefs, Reid has gone to the postseason 20 times, which is why he's coached more playoff games than anyone in history with 45, one more than Belichick's 44.
Now, all of this isn't meant to knock McVay, as there's undoubtedly a strong argument for his placement on the list, as, at age 40, he's already been to two Super Bowls and won one, nearly getting to a third this past January before taking a four-point loss in the NFC title game to the eventual champion Seattle Seahawks. And he'll undoubtedly be in contention to get back to the Big Game this upcoming season.
But assuming Patrick Mahomes returns healthy, so will Reid and the Chiefs. And if things play out a certain way, we'll get to see Reid and McVay duke it out twice, as Kansas City will visit Los Angeles in early December to kick off Week 13 on Thursday Night Football, with a potential second matchup at SoFi Stadium in February at Super Bowl 61.
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