Retreads and hot-shot offensive and defensive coordinators will be all the rage in 2017 NFL head coaching searches.

That means a well of potentially successful candidates may go untapped yet again.

In a league where the cliché “all three phases” is part of the coach-speak lexicon, special-teams coordinators are given scant consideration compared to their offensive and defensive brethren. Not a single special teams coach received even an interview in 2016 for the eight head coaching vacancies that opened despite the fact Super Bowl-winning head coaches like Bill Belichick, John Harbaugh and Bill Cowher spent significant time in those ranks.

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Denver’s Joe DeCamillis is among the special-teams coordinators who hope that changes in January.

Regarded as one of the best at his craft, the 51-year-old DeCamillis interviewed in 2013 for the Chicago Bears vacancy that went to a former offensive coordinator in Marc Trestman, who was fired two years later. DeCamillis believes that not only could he flourish as a head coach, but other top special-teams coordinators, as well, based upon the teaching skills and communication needed in connecting with both offensive and defensive players to field quality coverage, return and kicking units.

DeCamillis recently made his case in a video interview with Sporting News.