College Football: 5 head coaches most likely to leave for NFL jobs

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Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma football. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports /

4. Lincoln Riley

Riley has been on the shortlist of some NFL teams in the past couple of hiring cycles, but has not yet made the leap to the NFL.

The Cleveland Browns and Dallas Cowboys both showed various amounts of interest in the Oklahoma Sooners head coach last year, but Riley has decided to remain in Norman and keep winning Big 12 championships.

Riley is regarded as one of the top offensive minds in all of football and has coached two Heisman winners in Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray and Oklahoma has remained one of the best programs in the country since Riley took over in 2017.

Oklahoma is one of the best college jobs in the country and it would take the perfect scenario for Riley to leave however and he has shown a reluctance to do so up to this point in his still young coaching career.

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