Robert Saleh is the head football coach of the New York Jets of the National Football League. He was born on January 31, 1979. (NFL). From 2005 to 2020, Saleh served as assistant coach for the Houston Texans, Seattle Seahawks, Jacksonville Jaguars, and San Francisco 49ers, with the latter serving as his first defensive coordinator from 2017 to 2020.

Robert Saleh’s Children

Saleh has four boys and two girls with his wife, Sanaa. After being hired by the Jets, he became the league’s first Muslim head coach.

According to the records, Saleh and his wife, Sanaa, have a total of six children, including males Adam, Zane, Michael, and Sam, as well as girls Mila and Ella.

Saleh is a 1997 Fordson High School graduate, having been born in Dearborn, Michigan. He was born in Lebanon and is of Lebanese ancestry. He was a four-year regular for the Northern Michigan Wildcats football team, garnering all-conference accolades as a tight end, from 1997 to 2001.

During the September 11 attacks in 2001, Saleh’s brother David was just on the 61st story of the South Tower, where he witnessed the fireball from the first plane’s impact on the North Tower. He’d got down to the 24th level before the second plane crashed, this time approximately 50 floors above in his tower, after disregarding appeals from the public intercom to return to their workplaces from Tower 2.