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Robert Zeglinski

NFL fans were so relieved the Jim Harbaugh carousel has stopped on the Chargers

Jim Harbaugh’s coaching future felt like it was up in the air after Michigan won the college football national championship. That has now come to fruition.

On Wednesday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the Los Angeles Chargers are hiring Harbaugh as their new head coach. USA Today affirmed the news, too. Fresh off a title season in Ann Arbor, Harbaugh will now have the pleasure of coaching Justin Herbert and, ideally, building the Chargers back into a bona fide Super Bowl contender. Notably, at the time of this writing, the Chargers have not yet hired a new general manager, opting to lock in Harbaugh for their coaching vacancy first.

Harbaugh had reportedly been in talks for a few weeks with several NFL teams, making his leaving Michigan all but feel like an outright inevitability. Naturally, some NFL fans were relieved; some thought the Chargers made a home-run hire, and some even had thoughts about what it meant for Herbert’s future as one of the more talented quarterbacks in the league.

This was how Twitter reacted to the Chargers' hire of Harbaugh

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