Lane Kiffin could be a candidate for the San Francisco 49ers' offensive coordinator position.

According to a source, Kiffin might consider returning to the NFL.

Kiffin has been coaching in college since his firing as head coach of the Oakland Raiders in 2008. Kiffin is currently offensive coordinator at Alabama.

“For Coach (Nick) Saban to afford me this opportunity to come here for myself and to be able to be the offensive coordinator is one thing,” Kiffin told reporters at the Sugar Bowl, “… to learn from somebody like him and his process, shoot, I would have done it for free. I would have paid him for it, like most people would.

"So it’s been a great experience for myself to see here’s what probably is the best system in college football right now as far as performing year in, year out and how he does that and be able to learn that, and what you’ve already learned from a different system in our first time at USC under Pete Carroll, which had a great run there, and how different the opportunity to be able to experience both of those, I don’t know how you could ask for a better opportunity and to have a better opportunity that he gave me last January.”