Jim Harbaugh, ex-Michigan football coach, to undergo heart procedure, hip surgery

Posted by Admin January 16, 2025 Football

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Former Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh has some medical procedures coming this offseason.

Harbaugh, 61, who just led the Los Angeles Chargers to the NFL playoffs in his first season returning to the league — the Chargers’ season ended in a 32-12 defeat to the Houston Texans — said Wednesday he will have an ablation to treat an irregular heart rhythm as well as hip replacement surgery “soon”.

Harbaugh made headlines in mid-October when he experienced an irregular heartbeat early in the Chargers’ Week 6 win against the Broncos — he went to the medical tent in the first quarter of what ended as a 23-16 victory over the Denver Broncos and had an EKG and his pulse taken as he received an IV and magnesium.

This will not be Harbaugh’s first ablation, a treament that targets abnormal tissue with heat or cold.

Harbaugh, who led U-M to a national championship in 2023 before bolting for the NFL, had the same procedure done in 2012 when he was in the league the first time, with the San Francisco 49ers.

Harbaugh, is also scheduled to undergo a hip procedure this offseason.

The Chargers went 11-6 in their first season with Harbaugh at the helm, but the season ended with a lopsided loss to the Texans as quarterback Justin Herbert threw four interceptions, after throwing three in 17 regular-season games combined.

“I really felt going into that tournament that we were as good as the best teams in the playoffs,” Harbaugh said. “That day we were not the better team. … We did not play complementary football and weren’t our best when our best was needed; that’s my responsibility.”

Tony Garcia is the Michigan Wolverines beat writer for the Detroit Free Press. Email him at apgarcia@freepress.com and follow him on X at @RealTonyGarcia.